Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.
hey, that’s me! I’m a redditor that walked away after Apollo shutdown!
Apollo refugee reporting in!
ONE OF US!
Samesies, I wish someone at Reddit would leak how many users deleted their account on July 1st and leading up to it compared to a normal month of people coming and going.
Wefwef has been an amazing replacement so far.
hello! glad you walked in here.
Same here - I’m loving wefwef so far, has a very similar UI 🙌
Dumb question. I’ve been off reddit and here for about a month. Today 7-2 I opened my boost app and infinity app and noticed new posts. I thought all the api apps were shutting down 6-30?
Infinity’s dev said the app would still be usable for sometimes until a new update pass it into a subscription plan.
Thank you for your reply. So infinity will continue to support reddit until further notice?
Thank you. I haven’t been on there for a month I was just curious. Am using wefwef now and love it. I hope to see the Lemmy community grow so there is more to enjoy like Reddit has been for the last 10 years for me. I’m going to miss it as a resource but I’ll be ok. Happy 4th.
You’re welcome ! Been on reddit for like 6 or 7 years maybe ? But just a big lurkers, I find Lemmy and smaller instance a good opportunity to invest yourself more in the community as there isn’t a lot of users (for now). Happy 4th too !
Judging from the slowdowns and hiccups around here, yeah, I’d say that was “some”. And we’re not done yet either. Plenty of people in the world party on friday and saturday. Plenty of people in the US are camping or something on an extended weekend.
Everyone checks it eventually as the week rolls on though. Kinda fortunate for us, really. Spreads the influx out.
Do you know if there are usage stats posted somewhere? I would like to see how much people joins in the upcoming weeks.
There are a few different sites that keep track of it. I like the way https://fedidb.org/software/Lemmy presents the stats. The dip in users that they show though is from them removing a bunch of bot instances from their metrics.
I’ve seen a few stats posted throughout the day. Around 6hrs ago I saw just lemmy.world activity had risen 40% since yesterday.
I’m one of the new ones so I don’t know where stats came from tho.
I was posting and encouraging Lemmy.world and wefwef like crazy until Apollo died.
Reddit is Fun user here… I had 15 years on reddit, I was part of their FCC filing in favor of Net Neutrality… I’m not going back.
It’s not just about shutting down the apps, it’s about the utter disdain they showed the communities and the users.
Rip RIF, you served us well all these years.
I’m sort of motivated by laziness. When RIF stopped working I thought oh well, guess I just use Lemmy on my phone.
When old.reddit stops working some day I do the same for the desktop. Reddit is literally driving me away. How badly can they fuck up? The modern reddit they are trying to push on us is not the reddit I signed up for 11 years ago.
But, but, it’s the one they can monitize for their IPO! ;)
I’m the same, used RIF for 10 years and really miss it. I would love a Lemmy app that rivals how good RIF was.
Try wefwef.app my fellow ex-Apollo users
Yep, using it right now. I honestly don’t even miss the other site anymore, though Apollo (and AlienBlue) will always have a place in my heart.
100%. Been checking out Lemmy with Wefwef for last couple of days and I don’t have a single urge to go back to Reddit. Trying to be more active now to do my bit to make Lemmy successful.
Using it right now, it’s like a warm blanket.
A warm blanket that feels familiar huh
Yup, that’s me. I’m still a little surprised at how easy (thanks Spez) it actually was for being such a heavy consumer of Reddit. Doing Christian wrong like that, as well as the many popular 3rd party apps and their loyal users, just didn’t sit right with me. Spez chose the nuclear option, instead of actually working with and potentially helping to grow the site along with 3rd party devs, so this is the resulting fallout. He asked for it, so he got it.
I bought the wallpapers to support Christian and had a really emotional evening.
When the blackout started I joined Lemmy and started to stop using Reddit to show my support by not producing any traffic.
On the last day I opened up apollo again and it was so terrifying, knowing the way I used Reddit for years will be gone. I used PDS but will wait with the deletion of my accounts to be safe that Reddit doesn’t restore my comments.
I still keep my fingers crossed that Christian will make an Apollo App for Lemmy, but I can totally understand the he got other things to do.
Just remember, he got called out from Spez and one of his income sources just disappeared because a business partner just wanted to fuck him up. I hope his friends and family will be there for him.
BTW: Made a little fan icon. Just for the dreams.
Have you tried wefwef? I’m also coming from Apollo and finding it very familiar :)
Is that what Apollo was like? I’m an android user, so never actually used Apollo. The sliding to vote, collapse, and reply is kinda neat (if perhaps not very obvious at first – I saw a comment mention it, which is the main reason I even knew it was there).
I never used Apollo (I’m an Android user) but I tried wefwef for the first time today and I’m surprised at how natural it feels. If this is what Apollo was like I’m sad I didn’t get a chance to experience it.
Same here I never really got into reddit until I found an app that I actually enjoyed browsing on…. Apollo
I wish I knew about wefwef sooner I don’t know how I can transfer my data from Apollo now
Yep, I’m one of them. RIP Apollo.
Me too, after ten plus years. Nice to be here (:
I stepped away from Reddit after Apollo shut down in part out of spite and to stand against the crap from Reddit but mostly because Apollo made Reddit usable.
Never used Apollo but after seeing how Huffman lied about it, plus all of the misleading messaging, it was more than enough to cut that tie
Same. Reddit could walk back everything they said and literally prove they would be unable to do it again by some act of god that I still wouldn’t go back. They have completely erased my goodwill towards them.
I’ve been using WefWef to browse Lemmy and it feels so perfectly familiar. Makes me very happy.
Same here
Same. Just starting out but it already feels like home.
I’ve always preferred mobile sites to apps. Not sure why. Maybe I just like to use Safari to manage all that I’m checking out.
But I stand with developers. Even Balmer knew developers are a major key to success. I’m not interested in using a site with such hostile ownership.
Fuck spez.
Except that when using Safari to access reddit, any post marked as NSFW forces you into the app.
Looks like it works if you’re signed in. I tried r/Playboy while signed in and it worked. Tried again in a private tab and didn’t.
I have the same issue even when signed in. I’m still seeing performance issues and long wait times until actions complete like posting comments on lemmy.world in the web, so it might be more the site than Wefwef, and WW is just timing out.
I have the same issue even when signed in. I’m still seeing performance issues and long wait times until actions complete like posting comments on lemmy.world in the web, so it might be more the site than Wefwef, and WW is just timing out.
I do too! I just generally don’t want to keep track of and manage permission and data access for a number of different apps that might change when the ownership changes. I see apps as a way for the owner to take control of more of your mobile environment than is actually warranted, whereas connecting to all services through my browser lets me stay in control of what information they have access to – to some extent.
I started to think more about it, and I think the main reason is being able to use an ad blocker in Safari, and not within apps. Sure, I could use a DNS profile, but I don’t feel like installing one (I don’t like installing stuff, I’m seeing a pattern…)
I have, for now at least. Reddit is a hard habbit to break, and maybe lemmy is just feeding that same habbit but it’s an interesting time.
Looks like I’m from the minority of people who browsed Reddit on Firefox Android. Although I lost nothing, I like the smaller cohesive community feeling of Lemmy
You lost your innocence. /s
Count me in for Firefox! I’m still using it for browsing Lemmy but Jerboa is also nice.
Useful list for people exploring Lemmy apps https://lemmy.world/post/465785
Thank you, I’ve missed this list and looks quite comprehensive. There are there some apps I will try!
Thank you, I’ve missed this list and looks quite comprehensive. There are there some apps I will try!
Check put wefwef.app, it’s the best of both worlds
I used Reddit for over a decade, and much of that was with Apollo. Not going back purely because of how they treated Christian and the other 3rd party devs
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I used Apollo and I feel ya. I used to keep the default app installed so I could claim free gifts but it wasn’t worth ending up in the official Reddit app on accident while browsing the web :P Yeah, it’s that bad.
Good way of putting it. Their app was so horrible that I went from PAYING and using their app to moving to Apollo. I tried using it after they bought Blue Alien but it got worse and worse and finally I gave up paying and moved. Reddit died with third party useful apps.
Before the APIcalypse, I thought about quitting reddit. Now that my 3rd party app died, quitting has never been easier. I tried to check the site with a mobile browser, but I can’t collapse comments, so that ended up being a very quick visit.
Exactly my scenario. They really fucked the chicken up with the move to charge for API access.
It’s amazing how history always finds a way of repeating itself. The ignorance to not acknowledge what happened to digg, and what sent so many to deadit is laughable. I would be very interested to see what traffic looks like now to reddit, and how much of it is coming from their app, which I think they said they will start charging a monthly subscription fee for. That CEO should have the cheese touch after that debacle.
THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE APP???
What alternate reality are they living in?
FFS. It doesn’t even work half the time.
You’d think that knowing they were going to do this they’d have put some effort into making it work a bit better, but no.
Really a subscription for the basic tier app? That would be madness.
Of course it’s madness now that they charge $50/year now for premium. It was paying the highest’ tier of Apollo and it was $10/year and actually had features I wanted.
Lmao a subscription to use the app
Yep, deleted mine yesterday. Their disdain for the mods that provide free labor and for the users in general with their lazy “they’ll get over it” attitude was the deal breaker. Fuuuuuck Reddit.
Hell yeah. 16 years here, and as part of some big happenings early on. (RIP I_RAPE_CATS)
Haven’t touched Reddit since Apollo died.
I’m here too having signed up this morning. I am still hoping for a good iOS mobile experience. Either way I’m here for the long run. I’m done with Reddit.
An iOS app (Mlem) is currently under development. If you want to be an early adopter, you can test it already. I guess it will be available in the app store sooner or later.
Have Memmy closed their beta testing sign up now? I’ve been testing Mlem and Memmy for a couple of weeks and wefwef for a few days. Memmy is streaks ahead of the other two right now. I can’t see myself choosing Mlem over Memmy ever. Wefwef has potential but has understandably been buggy as hell. I’m looking forward to Artemis but it’s invite only beta testing at the moment.
I don’t know about their current state, other than that those apps aren’t currently available in the app store. I don’t feel like being a beta tester, so I’ll just wait until the official release date . For the time being, browsing Lemmy with Safari has been good enough. I mean, it’s way better than Reddit, so I’m not complaining at all. Some people said that they would use Reddit on a mobile browser. I tried that a few times and it was just garbage in so many ways. Lemmy, on the other hand, is perfectly fine even on a browser.
The writing is on the wall. I don’t want to boiled slowly like a frog. Merely tolerating the disrespect from the CEO of Reddit is not a long term solution. I bet old.reddit.com is next on the chopping block for sure. For me I just bit the bullet and decided to move away now than eventual future.
