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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 Ageodene »

MBCook wrote: post #22

I’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…

You can install "Sink it for Reddit" to remove that obnoxious "pretty please install our app." banner. It also does other stuff to make their mobile website not as bad, but it still isn't a great experience.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by dcormier »

zonkerdonker wrote: post #280
gardnr wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The premium account holders don't see ads in reddit. All Reddit had to do was require premium accounts for users that wanted to use 3rd party apps. If you want to keep using yoru 3rd party app, then sign up and pay or shut up and go home. It would have been a much more logical change for everyone involved.

I think it's just a play to bump up their in-app DAU for increased IPO valuation. Fuck the users, all about the short term gains. I'm curious what the percentage of people accessing the site via the official app vs all other avenues was before all this shit

> I'm curious what the percentage of people accessing the site via the official app vs all other avenues was before all this shit

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said 95% of iOS app users use the official app.

> You go to the App Store, you type in Reddit, you get two options, right? There’s Apollo. You go to one, it’s my business, and you look at our ads, use our products. That’s 95 percent of our iOS users. The rest go to Apollo[…]

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

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by dayvonjersen »

dsir wrote: post #20
lousken wrote: post #11

So where is everybody going after reddit?

Lots of communities on Reddit have started the process of migrating to different platforms. The federated alternatives like Lemmy have had recent success although I question the complexity of it all in terms of getting mass adoption. Most of the alternatives seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes…

Looked at this last night briefly before going to bed and said I'd check it again today but then got distracted by the whole twitter fiasco.

This looks awesome dude way to go :D

I forgot the link was in this thread (didn't bookmark it). It was a real pain trying to find it via google or startpage (until I remembered what thread I was reading last night) I remembered "sociable" but searches for "sociable social media platform" and even "sociable site:news.ycombinator.com" yielded zilch.

Long story short I'd suggest working on your SEO just a little you're competing with "sociable.co". But design+concept are 10/10 as far as I'm concerned, god speed o7

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by kcrwfrd_ »

anjel wrote: post #180
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.

Slashdot > Digg > Reddit > Hacker News

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by paulcole »

johnnyanmac wrote: post #368
paulcole wrote: post #159

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> Sure, if you call simply posting his experiences on his own subreddit for his own app a PR campaign. Yes, this and the organized blackout and anti-Reddit posts among the biggest subreddits is a coordinated PR campaign. Remember that the headline narrative they were pushing was “Reddit is killing 3rd-party apps.” It was buried in walls of text that in fact Reddit was making 3rd-party apps pay more than they wanted t…

>If Reddit was in fact killing 3rd-party apps why does Narwhal still work? Come back to me in 6 months and see how that statement rings. I wish the best but history serves that Reddit's user have never heen able to put their money where their mouth is. I believe Relay is also doing this, but they seem ready to shut down if users don't pay up.

RemindMe! 6 months

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by ryaneager »

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…

By chance are you into sim racing? It’s just that your first paragraph is exactly my Reddit story, so maybe we have similar hobbies… haha.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by mvdtnz »

FireInsight wrote: post #325
mvdtnz wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not even slightly interested in the "fediverse". My impression is that most of the people involved are more interested in the ideology of decentralisation and the technology than they are about community building. I don't care even slightly about decentralisation. The focus is to the clear detriment of the product itself.

This shows you have not been on the fediverse and certainly have not indulged with communities mostly populated by long-time fedizens who view it as a place from their community to their community. There is a lot of feeling of community, inside instances, wider subcommunities, with a great example being the push to pre-emptively block all Meta instances and projects.

I have Mastodon and Lemmy accounts but thanks for your concern.
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