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Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by morisy »

Shawnj2 wrote: post #129
RheingoldRiver wrote: post #78

There will be a spiritual successor though, for kbin/Lemmy, called Artemis: https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp Right now it's in a closed beta, and the size of the closed beta is increasing slowly through the end of the month. The goal is for it to be public around the start of August. That kbin magazine has a link to a signup sheet for the closed beta. (disclosure? I was an alpha tester for it, and so far it looks AMA…

Memmy is also similar to Apollo

Been using Memmy — a few weeks ago, it felt like a very impressive beta app, and since then it's gone to just feeling like a great app. Seems to have taken a lot of good lessons from Apollo in terms of responsiveness and speed. Planted the seed of wanting to even host my own Lemmy instance.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by unshavedyak »

AndroidKitKat wrote: post #18
lousken wrote: post #11

So where is everybody going after reddit?

I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm going to try giving up internet comment sections for a while to try and see if I can live without them. I have wasted far too much time on Reddit, Hacker News, and recently Lemmy (which I tried to use as a Reddit replacement). The articles themselves would be nice to keep around, I haven't found enough RSS feeds to make my feed reader app populated enough. I will probably…

Same. I'm actually attempting to make my own, but in similar motivation from your comment, i'm trying to make mine reduce engagement. I want something that explores the positives of social/link-aggs/etc, but doesn't try to keep engagement high.

Something that lets you check it once a day and not feel like you missed anything. etcetc

I think there were good things about Reddit but it is scary how deeply Reddit (and frankly, HN) have driven muscle memory and addictive doomscroll behavior. I'd love to see more people explore features which attempt to extract user value from these platforms but minimize addictive features.

Difficult, but a fun area to explore.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by simfree »

dom96 wrote: post #63
ztgasdf wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will you release the code for this?

I think so. Though it’s not nearly as sophisticated as you might think. Are you interested in hosting an instance of it?

Having an equivalent of Nitter and Invidious would be amazing! I would love to host an instance of this API, you should publish your code!

Apps like RedReader will be impossible to modify and use in a libre manner without a replacement API implementation like this.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by _rs »

brasic wrote: post #103
Nas808 wrote: post #80

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That was a nice feature, but there are other apps that do this without consent and I don't like it. For example, if you have the NY Times app installed and tap on a link in Safari that leads to a NY Times article, it automatically opens it in the NY Times app. iOS has no user controls for this behavior. The only way around it is to long-press on the link and pick "open in new tab", or uninstall the app.

> iOS has no user controls for this behavior Actually, it does but they are shockingly unintuitive and hidden. The best way to change your preference among supported link handlers is to copy a URL, paste it into the notes app, then long press that link and choose “open with” either safari or your preferred app. That will stick until the next time you long press a link in this way. An iOS developer for JIRA taught me…

Woah! Is there any other way to do this or any way to do it directly from Safari?

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by time0ut »

extr wrote: post #42

I remember signing up for Reddit as a college freshman. I was a digg user and joined Reddit in the aftermath of that fiasco. I sometimes laugh looking over my post history for the past decade plus. If you read the posts linearly, you can trace my evolution from a kid arguing passionately over politics and culture (things he didn't really know much about), to a more mature young adult who rarely waded into discussions…

I remember seeing reddit on my coworker’s screen in 2010. The front page of the internet? Isn’t that slashdot… Oh but its for everything? Interesting!

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Post by happytiger »

aeyes wrote: post #94
shagie wrote: post #82

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I'm not sure how much of a whim Reddit had. A Virginia law was signed into effect on May 12th that required commercial entities that distributed "material harmful to minors" to verify the age of the users or be exposed to civil penalties. That law goes into effect in 3 hours.

NSFW content didn't show without an account for years. What's the difference between using the same account in the official app or on the website or third party apps? Additionally one of the API changes which also goes is into effect is that they won't serve NSFW content on the paid API. So even if you pay you only get half of Reddit.

Classic correlation not being causation.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by bluedemon »

kaibee wrote: post #149
zmmmmm wrote: post #128

If you care about this stuff, please at least give the fediverse a try. Yes it's inadequate right now in all kinds of ways. But the main reason is that not enough people are there. It needs critical mass. Pick whatever you want - kbin, lemmy, mastodon. Go there, find your community (it will probably look very sad compared to Reddit). And contribute something positive - comment, post, whatever. If everybody just did t…

I tried to make a lemmy account on my phone in between errands. Couldn't figure it out. I'll give it a shot on desktop, and I want a reddit replacement, but I wonder how many other people are gonna go to the same effort. Maybe that's a feature though, an escape from eternal September.

May want to try Squabbles.io too. Easier to figure out and it has a friendly community. It was featured on Product Hunt yesterday. It made it to the top 3.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by anjel »

extr wrote: post #42

I remember signing up for Reddit as a college freshman. I was a digg user and joined Reddit in the aftermath of that fiasco. I sometimes laugh looking over my post history for the past decade plus. If you read the posts linearly, you can trace my evolution from a kid arguing passionately over politics and culture (things he didn't really know much about), to a more mature young adult who rarely waded into discussions…

Newsgroups > Yahoo Clubs > Yahoo Groups > Digg > Reddit > the next great "online community" good enough that you come to rely on it, which of course means enturdification is right around the corner, sure as turds.
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