So where is everybody going after reddit?
Since the Apollo dev broke the news, I'm trying out Lemmy and it's an interesting alternative. Definitely too new to say what will happen to it, but looks promising.
Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
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Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
#22I’ve long used Apollo to hold an alt account.
I just downloaded the official app and logged in. In 3 minutes I deleted it.
Ignoring design issues, all of a sudden the official app grabbed ALL Reddit links and if I viewed Reddit in Safari there was an unremovable “Open in the app” banner above the Safari content that couldn’t be removed.
No way. Deleted.
The last year has just destroyed so much of the value I get out of the internet.
Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
#23So where is everybody going after reddit?
I’ve been trying very hard not to go anywhere. Though… hi, here I am. I’ve set myself a 15 minute a day limit for news.ycombinator.com on my phone, doesn’t apply to my laptop but I’m less concerned about that.
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#24I pretty much only like Reddit for niche communities and fighting shit google results. The latter is a necessity but for the former there’s other communities to satiate my needs. It’s just that it’s a bit of a fragmented way of diving into my interests. Is there such a thing as a forum aggregator?
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Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
#25I pretty much only like Reddit for niche communities and fighting shit google results. The latter is a necessity but for the former there’s other communities to satiate my needs. It’s just that it’s a bit of a fragmented way of diving into my interests. Is there such a thing as a forum aggregator?
Where are these other communities? I can’t find them. And no, I don’t count Discord as an acceptable replacement. Googling for old-school forums has been pretty fruitless for me thus far as Google is basically useless without appending site:reddit.com these days (the supreme irony of that…)
I guess it depends on how niche your interests are. I’m mainly into electronic music machines and synth diy. There’s enough forums for me. There’s other stuff that I frequent on Reddit but at the end of the day it’s usually just crap to distract me that I could do without.
Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
#26I am confused, 12:00am UTC is 8:00pm EDT. So UTC 12:00 should be 11:00 pm PDF. It is 7:40 EDT as I type this on June 30 EDIT: was in junethack while typing this, yes 5pm PDT is 12 UTC :)
The author posted on Twitter ~20 minutes ago that he shut it down early, due to some change in the API causing crashes. I presume he had been expecting to shut it down at midnight in some American time zone.
> Well, looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token and it looks like it fixes the crashing, but no more Reddit access haha. Those folks are fun to the very end! > @ChristianSelig > 6:49 PM (CDT) · Jun 30, 2023
Source: https://twitter.com/ChristianSelig/status/167492828678112461...
Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
#27So where is everybody going after reddit?
Perhaps Github? It is not social media as such, but technically it could be used as such. A kind of "intent hacking". A repo = subreddit. Issues = posts with comments. Regardless, I think I will spend more time there, since I have some small personal projects in mind.
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#28RedReader for Android, and Dystopia for iOS were both granted exemptions to the new API pricing by Reddit due to their accessibility and non-commercial nature.
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#29RIP Bacon Reader. Reddit, you’ve burned so much goodwill. I’ve been an enthusiastic user for over 14 years. Now I’m planning to delete my content. At one point recently, I got excited about applying for an engineering leadership position with you, but this debacle has made me realize your senior leadership is not who I want to be reporting to.
Please don't delete it without adding it to the Internet archive first
Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
#30I’m giving Lemmy a try using wefwef.app