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!
Same here - I’m loving wefwef so far, has a very similar UI 🙌
hello! glad you walked in here.
Wefwef has been an amazing replacement so far.
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.
Apollo refugee reporting in!
ONE OF US!
Sync user here. I’ve walked away… Waiting on SyncForLemmy.
I still have the sync app, so when I accidentally click on a Reddit link, it takes me to the broken app, reminding me how fucked Reddit is, and how I don’t want to be using it any more.
Can’t wait for the Lemmy Sync app too! Not that Jerboa is really that bad…
Same here. I’m on Connect for now, which is decent, but checking if Sync is ready every day haha
Check out wefwef! It’s quite nice and mimics iOS’ design quite well.
Once Bacon Reader died, I stopped. It’s sad. I was subbed to a lot of fun and interesting subreddits. But fuck spez, that greedy little pig boy. Lemmy seems like reddit lite for the moment, but I’m sure it will grow.
Yup same here with RIF gone, fuck that and fuck spez. The sad thing is that Reddit is so old that there’s always little niche subs that have a lot of mileage that are really nice to figure out new stuff. Like I was looking at Add-ons for Kodi in my last days and probably will still have to resort to go there once in a while for stuff like that.
I am kind of liking it with less people. It’s more like how reddit used to be when I joined. You could have really great conversations with people.
All my homies hate greedy little pig boys.
I barely use Reddit since Bacon Reader has been offline. The official Reddit app is garbage. I’m enjoying using Lemmy with the Connect app, but I wish the Bacon Reader team would create an app for Lemmy.
Might be confirmation bias, but theres a lot more baconreader representation than usual. I wonder if theres a reason for it, or if its in my head.
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. Just starting out but it already feels like home.
Same here
After Apollo’s API token was invalid, I deleted my account. I know it’s a minuscule drop in the ocean for Reddit, but not matter, I’m with Lemmy and the fediverse come what may.
I think this is also true for a lot of long term power-users of reddit. So, LOTS of drops in the ocean.
Same, in the optional feedback box, I told them to fire Spez
Same. Can’t do much, but I think voting with our feet is the right thing to do.
It’s pretty cozy here tbh, really liking it so far and it’s way more busy than I was expecting.
Honestly I thought it would be tougher to switch. I know Reddit has a depth of content in niche communities and it’s tragic to lose that, but I’ve been delighted to find myself enjoying exploring a new system and all the weird and clever instances that are popping up.
I also deleted my account on Friday. Yea, we are just few drops, but enough drops have an impact.
I haven’t deleted my account, but I deleted every post and comment.
worth keeping your account on the off chance someone with a brain takes over and unfucks the place or you can find a good price to sell it to spammers.
I’ve also kept my account for the time being in case they want to revert any comments. Will be deleting in a few days.
Another former Redditor that walked away as soon as Apollo stopped working. I will never look back!
Same. And wefwef clones Apollo so well. Mlem is also pretty good.
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
Lemmy is my home now
I already built a bathtub here. I’m not leaving anytime soon.
I left. Haven’t been back to Reddit since Apollo died.
I left because RIF died, but same principle.
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Apollo shutting down forced me to confront my Reddit addiction. I used Reddit to escape my life. Even if it was just 5 minutes to take a break from work, or remove myself from reality to avoid anxiety or boredom. It became a crutch and an addiction. Instead of focusing on trying to change the moment or situation I’d escape instead.
It’s a lazy crutch to give yourself dopamine when in reality we all should be focusing on self improvement. Delayed gratification instead of immediate release. It sucks the various communities will die but at least my health can improve.
I moved my Lemmy app to the same location I’d habitually press sync for reddit. Im as addicted to pressing that part of my screen as I am reddit itself
These kinds of media can be used for self-improvement though. I’m sorry that it’s merely an escape for you and I hope you find the peace you’re searching for.
Until it is replaced with your shiney brand new Lemmy addiction.
I deleted my Reddit account. I almost exclusively browsed on mobile and I won’t be caught dead using Reddit’s useless official ap. Hi Lemmy.
Hi! I’m in the same boat. Part of me is sad to leave (15 year account) but the more bigger part of me is looking forward to seeing how lemmy grows with this migration.
It does genuinely feel like a new world even though I’d only been on reddit for a half-dozen years.
I’ve actually been using the Reddit app for quite some time now and I don’t get the hate. Regardless of that, the way Reddit handled all of this was enough for me to leave anyway. Hi Lemmy!
I used sync on Android for about 10 years, and reddit is fun (“rif”) for maybe a year before that. I used the official app yesterday to look for any top posts about the lost traffic on reddit and the app was stuttery and was impossible to find even the easiest of things. They’ve had their requirements and priorities change over the years as middle management comes and goes and so the app doesn’t have a unified and streamlined experience, which many of us on 3rd party apps have gotten used to. Which is sad since most 3rd party apps are the efforts of a single individual vs a 100s of employee, first party company.
IIRC, the official Reddit app used to be third party app Alien Blue. They didn’t even build their official app, they just bought a premade one.
Nothing of Alien Blue was really left, they just destroyed it and replaced it with their own crap
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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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.
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.
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.
Lmao a subscription to use the app
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.
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.
Nobody is mentioning the obvious answer to the seemingly stupid decisions of Spez and Musk. They’re tanking the primary platforms for leftist discourse online. Rest assured, they are being compensated.
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.
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…)
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.
