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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 no_carrier »

perfectstorm wrote: post #130
ortusdux wrote: post #3

Sync is also dead. They just sent out a push notification: "Sync for reddit had shutdown. Thank you for using Sync. It's been one hell of a ride."

sigh. Android Sync was one of the best reddit apps i have used. it had tons of customization, never crashed, snappy, had multi-window support etc. Apollo on iOS was a distant second.

Agreed, Sync was perfection. It got a little rocky with the redesign, but I think the dev handled it masterfully by rolling back for a bit and taking stock. The re-launch allowed you to configure the UI of the app any way you liked, so you could go for an "old.reddit" style information dense UI if you wanted it.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by rovr138 »

bentcorner wrote: post #186
shagie wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There's no possible way this is the cause. Like, at all. The simple sniff test is that blast radius of the passing of this law would be way way way larger than "reddit charges for API". We'd see many other sites follow suit with reddit. IANAL but I'll put down $100 that this law has nothing to do with reddit's API changes. First person to prove me wrong gets it. I'd like a quote from spez that says, paraphrased "If V…

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve...

> Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision to force AI companies training on Reddit’s data to pony up, but they’re also wiping out some beloved Reddit apps, and thousands of subreddits have gone dark for days in protest.

…

They want to charge for what they believe the data is worth.

Not for usage, but value.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by tnecniv »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #147
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'm going to press X to doubt. Reddit is infuriatingly sticky. Every time I land on a post from 10+ years ago (like this one [0] for example), I go to the author's profile page. Almost inevitably, they've written a comment within the last week. This is a remarkable property for a social website to have, and it's not one that I see exhibited in other places, like StackOverflow or ancient vBulletin forums. I'd like to…

Eh I think this will fundamentally change the site, almost like the inverse of the Digg exodus. A lot of us old school users are angry and done. The newer users that haven’t experienced a different social cycle of Reddit are the one are the ones upset that the mods are revolting. Over the last month, the quality of the front page has significantly dropped, and the remaining subs were heavily biased towards the ones that most recently rose to prominence (and have the most repeated / bland takes in the comments).

I’m not going to claim that Reddit was a bastion of intellectualism back in the day, but the mean effort put into comments on the main subs has deteriorated over time and today might very well mark a discontinuity in that

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by WFNY »

pwpw wrote: post #137
bloopernova wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been reading. No clickbait. No ragebait. Just Discworld and its hilarious inhabitants.

I stopped browsing Reddit 2 months ago and switched that time to reading Discworld too! It’s fantastic. I just started Mort. It feels like an incredibly more rewarding use of my time. Terry Pratchet really is wonderful.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

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

There are also Mlem, Liftoff and Wefwef

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by busymom0 »

guraf wrote: post #148
throwaway630000 wrote: post #66

Probably would have been interesting to relaunch the Apollo with its own backend as a direct competitor to Reddit. I think one simple push notification would've pulled millions of the most active users over to the new service

Apollo had just over ONE million users. Only 540k of whom were active. And significantly less that paid the fee needed to be able to post. And most active according to whom? People keep saying Reddit is committing suicide. Do y'all truly believe that most of Reddit useful content was created on mobile? In Apollo? The app that forced you to pay if you wanted to submit content to Reddit? Get real.

I suspect that those who bothered to go through the effort of downloading a third party app were also power users who most likely also contributed a lot more content than other users. How many content creators did Reddit lose by killing these third party apps?

Reddit doesn’t produce content of their own. If content creators and moderators took away their effort, Reddit would die.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by fakedang »

bentcorner wrote: post #182
SantalBlush wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If every Reddit user was tagged with their age, it would be an eye-opening experience. "Why is this 16-year-old talking about divorce lawyers on r/relationship_advice?"

> "Why is this 16-year-old talking about divorce lawyers on r/relationship_advice?" The opposite has occurred and it wasn't very pretty to look at.

Huh? Divorce lawyers talking on r/teenagers about relationship advice?
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