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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 bredren »

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…

Apollo had an optional safari extension that caught Reddit URLs and opened them in Apollo instead. It was great.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by sentientslug »

goda90 wrote: post #29
tspike wrote: post #9

RIP 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

Putting the content somewhere else defeats the whole purpose of deleting it.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by dom96 »

ztgasdf wrote: post #54
dom96 wrote: post #50

I am still somewhat shocked that they went through with this. I built a Reddit API[1] alternative as a form of protest, they responded by blocking my personal Reddit account. Very sad what Reddit has become. 1 - https://api.reddiw.com

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?

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by bears-n-beets »

mandmandam wrote: post #56
tayo42 wrote: post #35

I'm curious what happens to reddit now. I'm guessing just auto pilot of low effort content. Don't think it'll truly die as far as numbers go.

Sure, they've got the numbers. But there's no life. I picture the hordes of zombies in The Walking Dead, unknowingly led by a select few ghastly humans wearing zombie masks.

Yeah, I personally suspect it will be a slow death march over the course of a few years, culminating in it basically becoming 9gag.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by wardedVibe »

sentientslug wrote: post #62
goda90 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't delete it without adding it to the Internet archive first

Putting the content somewhere else defeats the whole purpose of deleting it.

not really, it'd be outside the garden wall, and thus not monetizable by reddit

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by shagie »

This happens to coincide with the date that a new law (singed May 12th) goes into effect in Virginia requiring commercial entities that publish or distribute "material harmful to minors" to verify the age of the users. Commercial entities violating that may suffer civil penalties.

https://legiscan.com/VA/text/SB1515/2023

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by bloopernova »

Exuma wrote: post #44
IAmGraydon wrote: post #10

Bye, Apollo. I kind of feel like a drug has been taken away from me. It’s is going to take a bit to adjust to not using Reddit on my phone, as I refuse to use their app.

110% agree... I have occasionally today looked at my phone like Hm....... nothing to do here, and then just stared out the window. There's always opportunities to learn instead, but I already learn for hours a day.

I've been reading. No clickbait. No ragebait.

Just Discworld and its hilarious inhabitants.

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by lannisterstark »

> metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit.

That's a weird connection to make. Reddit isn't be-all-end-all of open source (given that it or most of the major apps were never open source anyway)

Re: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

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Post by FormerBandmate »

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

Hopefully he does that later. Reddit sucks
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