Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.

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    After Apollo’s API token was invalid, I deleted my account. I know it’s a minuscule drop in the ocean for Reddit, but not matter, I’m with Lemmy and the fediverse come what may.

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          It’s pretty cozy here tbh, really liking it so far and it’s way more busy than I was expecting.

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            Honestly I thought it would be tougher to switch. I know Reddit has a depth of content in niche communities and it’s tragic to lose that, but I’ve been delighted to find myself enjoying exploring a new system and all the weird and clever instances that are popping up.

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        I can confirm. The drop wouldn’t impact me until they drop old.reddit.com, but I dropped Reddit because of moral reasons.

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      I also deleted my account on Friday. Yea, we are just few drops, but enough drops have an impact.

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        worth keeping your account on the off chance someone with a brain takes over and unfucks the place or you can find a good price to sell it to spammers.

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          I’ve also kept my account for the time being in case they want to revert any comments. Will be deleting in a few days.

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    Judging from the slowdowns and hiccups around here, yeah, I’d say that was “some”. And we’re not done yet either. Plenty of people in the world party on friday and saturday. Plenty of people in the US are camping or something on an extended weekend.

    Everyone checks it eventually as the week rolls on though. Kinda fortunate for us, really. Spreads the influx out.

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    I used Reddit for over a decade, and much of that was with Apollo. Not going back purely because of how they treated Christian and the other 3rd party devs

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      I’ve said this before elsewhere, but all of the spez BS aside, I used RiF for reddit. To me, that was Reddit. 95% of my time on reddit was through the lens of RiF.

      They are effectively getting rid of reddit for me by forcing RiF to shutdown.

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        Good way of putting it. Their app was so horrible that I went from PAYING and using their app to moving to Apollo. I tried using it after they bought Blue Alien but it got worse and worse and finally I gave up paying and moved. Reddit died with third party useful apps.

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        Before the APIcalypse, I thought about quitting reddit. Now that my 3rd party app died, quitting has never been easier. I tried to check the site with a mobile browser, but I can’t collapse comments, so that ended up being a very quick visit.

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        Exactly my scenario. They really fucked the chicken up with the move to charge for API access.

        It’s amazing how history always finds a way of repeating itself. The ignorance to not acknowledge what happened to digg, and what sent so many to deadit is laughable. I would be very interested to see what traffic looks like now to reddit, and how much of it is coming from their app, which I think they said they will start charging a monthly subscription fee for. That CEO should have the cheese touch after that debacle.

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          THEY ARE CHARGING FOR THE APP???

          What alternate reality are they living in?

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            FFS. It doesn’t even work half the time.

            You’d think that knowing they were going to do this they’d have put some effort into making it work a bit better, but no.

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          Really a subscription for the basic tier app? That would be madness.

          Of course it’s madness now that they charge $50/year now for premium. It was paying the highest’ tier of Apollo and it was $10/year and actually had features I wanted.

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        I used Apollo and I feel ya. I used to keep the default app installed so I could claim free gifts but it wasn’t worth ending up in the official Reddit app on accident while browsing the web :P Yeah, it’s that bad.

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      Hell yeah. 16 years here, and as part of some big happenings early on. (RIP I_RAPE_CATS)

      Haven’t touched Reddit since Apollo died.

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      Yep, deleted mine yesterday. Their disdain for the mods that provide free labor and for the users in general with their lazy “they’ll get over it” attitude was the deal breaker. Fuuuuuck Reddit.

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    Everyone keeps commenting on how federation feels “emptier” than Reddit, but honestly all I did after 15 or so years on Reddit is doom scroll. I just lurked and felt miserable. There IS less content here and because of that I visit for a shorter period of time and that FREEs me up to do other, more productive things with people I know outside of social media. After the past few weeks of learning about the tech and the why and how of the land I think I like the balance here.

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    I’m a part of that group. I see 24 people wish I’d kick rocks haha, I get it.

    Look, I’m sure most of the refugees agree with me. If we don’t fit in we’ll leave.

    So far I’m digging Lemmy. I wish it was more active, but if it’s gonna grow it will.

    It broke my heart to leave Reddit after 15-16 years, but it’s not that same place any more any way.

    So, hello fellow Apollo refugees.

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      Not being able to browse on mobile killed it for me. Most of my browsing was on mobile via Apollo. I refuse to get the official app after this stunt so now I’m just not using Reddit.

      Luckily wefwef is making the transition easy and familiar.

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          This app has totally blown me away. I always considered PWAs a gimmick, but they’re kind of a “now it works” version of the original iPhone 3rd party apps concept

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          Man, the astroturfing for wefwef around here is insane. I keep seeing it get brought up even in completely unrelated threads!

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            Apollo had a huge loyal customer base.

            Wefwef provides an almost perfectly cloned UI and is a mere WebApp.

            For this reason a lot of users are so impressed with it that they are evangelising it.

            The big problem with it that it requires users to submit their login credentials, which is a bit of a security issue.

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              Unfortunately all apps are suffering that issue because Lemmy doesn’t support OAuth2. It’s one of the many things on the dev backlog, but hopefully it won’t be too long.

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                You need to supply the app with your username and password. The app could theoretically steal your credentials when you enter them in order to login. It’s a good reason to not reuse passwords.

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                  Oof, I didn’t give this thought when I signed in. I luckily didn’t reuse my password here but that’s a great reminder, and good to know my exposure…

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            Android users are fortunate to be able to sideload apps without rooting their phones. The Play store isn’t as restrictive either. There are so many options for Android users to get on Lemmy.

            iPhone users get cucked, wefwef as far as I know is the only option without jailbreaking

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              After enrolling in TestFlight, I’ve tried mlem and Liftoff (which is what I’m replying to you on now). Wefwef is good but I’m hoping to use an actual app long term.

              Neither are quite Apollo and I’m really hoping Christian throws his hat back in the ring but they’re solid experiences so long as Lemmy itself doesn’t run into issues.

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            I mean, maybe users are just excited about finding a place to land after the exodus, and an app that does feel very similar to Apollo.

            I am using it based off seeing it mentioned a couple times and was very pleasantly surprised it’s similar to Apollo. Definitely makes the transition easier.

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      Same here, since 2017. I cannot recommend wefwef enough if you’re not already on it.

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    Went straight from Apollo to wefwef. Smooth transition.

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      It’s surprisingly good, for a project that started just 20 days ago. And I don’t want to jinx it but the pace of development is quite good as well, they keep releasing updates every few hours or so.

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          Have you tried the “Migrate Apollo Export” option in the settings? Not perfect since of course lots of things don’t have one to one analogues, but it’s handy for going through your subs.

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            I uninstalled when it stopped working yesterday, and can’t log back in when reinstalling now since the API is dead. I can reference my subs on desktop if needed but it’s not bad to have a fresh start

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      Same here. So far so good.

      Not as much activity as Reddit obviously, but I’m embracing it by seeking out the more active communities. I definitely fell into a rut on Reddit by only sticking to a handful of subs. This transition is forcing me to develop new interests, it’s great!

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      Agree. The more I play around and get comfortable with Lemmy the more I realize I don’t need to “grieve” the loss of Reddit

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      Same here. So far so good.

      Not as much activity as Reddit obviously, but I’m embracing it by seeking out the more active communities. I definitely fell into a rut on Reddit by only sticking to a handful of subs. This transition is forcing me to develop new interests, it’s great!

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    hey, that’s me! I’m a redditor that walked away after Apollo shutdown!

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    Reddit is Fun user here… I had 15 years on reddit, I was part of their FCC filing in favor of Net Neutrality… I’m not going back.

    It’s not just about shutting down the apps, it’s about the utter disdain they showed the communities and the users.

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      Rip RIF, you served us well all these years.

      I’m sort of motivated by laziness. When RIF stopped working I thought oh well, guess I just use Lemmy on my phone.

      When old.reddit stops working some day I do the same for the desktop. Reddit is literally driving me away. How badly can they fuck up? The modern reddit they are trying to push on us is not the reddit I signed up for 11 years ago.

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      I’m the same, used RIF for 10 years and really miss it. I would love a Lemmy app that rivals how good RIF was.

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        Started with Jerboa on Android, it was fine, found wefwef and downloaded the app for that, it’s just about perfect.

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    Reddit was becoming complete trash. The only thing that kept me was Apollo because it had an awesome feature where I could filter out all the keywords I didn’t want to see. Well, Apollo is now gone, so I’m done with Reddit and have started using lemmy.

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    I deleted my Reddit account. I almost exclusively browsed on mobile and I won’t be caught dead using Reddit’s useless official ap. Hi Lemmy.

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      Hi! I’m in the same boat. Part of me is sad to leave (15 year account) but the more bigger part of me is looking forward to seeing how lemmy grows with this migration.

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      I’ve actually been using the Reddit app for quite some time now and I don’t get the hate. Regardless of that, the way Reddit handled all of this was enough for me to leave anyway. Hi Lemmy!

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        I used sync on Android for about 10 years, and reddit is fun (“rif”) for maybe a year before that. I used the official app yesterday to look for any top posts about the lost traffic on reddit and the app was stuttery and was impossible to find even the easiest of things. They’ve had their requirements and priorities change over the years as middle management comes and goes and so the app doesn’t have a unified and streamlined experience, which many of us on 3rd party apps have gotten used to. Which is sad since most 3rd party apps are the efforts of a single individual vs a 100s of employee, first party company.

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          IIRC, the official Reddit app used to be third party app Alien Blue. They didn’t even build their official app, they just bought a premade one.

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            Nothing of Alien Blue was really left, they just destroyed it and replaced it with their own crap

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          Goes to show how difficult it can be for teams to build good products when there’s a million stakeholders involved vs one stakeholder (plus users). It can be done of course, but only if managed well. Which Reddit obviously didn’t.

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        I tried the official app 5 or 6 years ago but it really sucked, was way too bright and killed my phone’s battery life. Settled for RedReader and never looked back.

        RedReader only got better, the Reddit app had some features slowly trickle in years too late, and got worse and had bugs that took ages to fix.

        I was using it enough that I would have considered paying for premium or gold if Reddit was to co-operate to add-in API features like poll voting. But with their such antagonistic approach, I started winding down my Reddit usage in late April and ramping up with Lemmy. Despite RedReader being given an exception, I’m leaving it permanently. I’m not posting or commenting anymore.

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    The writing is on the wall. I don’t want to boiled slowly like a frog. Merely tolerating the disrespect from the CEO of Reddit is not a long term solution. I bet old.reddit.com is next on the chopping block for sure. For me I just bit the bullet and decided to move away now than eventual future.

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    I stepped away from Reddit after Apollo shut down in part out of spite and to stand against the crap from Reddit but mostly because Apollo made Reddit usable.

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      100%. Been checking out Lemmy with Wefwef for last couple of days and I don’t have a single urge to go back to Reddit. Trying to be more active now to do my bit to make Lemmy successful.

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      Yep, using it right now. I honestly don’t even miss the other site anymore, though Apollo (and AlienBlue) will always have a place in my heart.

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        The other site that shall not be named lol

        Jokes aside, it’s Apollo and Boost for me