Looks like Apollo is now dead boys and girls. Feels like having a loved one die
Wefwef
Yeah… instant crashing. It’s a weird feeling.
When this saga began, I didn’t think I’d be struggling with such a sense of disconnect with the loss of an app of all things. However, I do feel that Christian’s eulogy for Apollo helped, a gentle reminder to “smile because it happened”. Here’s to moving on.
I haven’t processed what it means yet. I’m still at the first stage of grief.
I’m sad now :( I’ll be even sadder tommorow once it sinks in
I was shot down mid-scroll. Brutal.
Holy crap… That is brutal.
I was in the middle of switching over to Lemmy. Honestly I’m really enjoying it so far.
I tried to use the official reddit app and it was horrible. So I’m trying out Lemmy. The look and feel on Lemmy mobile app (Jerboa) is so similar to Reddit is Fun.
I’m using wefwef.app and so far it’s like 90% of the way to an Apollo clone. Now we just need more users, communities, and content.
Tell all your friends! Wait, we’re all redditors. Shit…
Want to know what’s worse? According to The Verge, /u/iamthatis told them it was Reddit who pulled the plug earlier than planned.
https://giphy.com/gifs/filmeditor-mean-girls-movie-xT9KVea2o7aPXtqHwQ
(Lemmy gif test, take #1)
ETA so far wefwef.app feels like a great Apollo clone. No push notifications on iOS (yet?) but I added it to my Home Screen and it’s great.
Yup. It’s done. No more. Wow…. Well HELLLOOOOOOO LEMMMMINGS!!!
Someone on Reddit said “years of muscle memory gone,” which hit me hard. Apollo was Reddit for me for years, so depressing watching this play out.
Check out wefwef.app
For what it’s worth, wefwef (wefwef.app) feels a little like Apollo and has made me moving over here a bit easier…
It’s still in beta but mlem seems to be basically copying Apollo. It’s a marine app instead of a web app. Missing some important features at the moment but worth keeping an eye on.
I meant native app not marine app lol we’re still missing editing with it’s unfortunate since apple’s keyboard hates me.
Wefwef has been impressing me for a web app, although the bar isn’t that high. The web app makes it accessible without Testflight and quicker to push live, making adoption quicker.
So at the moment my “workflow” is to completely stop accessing Reddit via mobile apps. I’ll still use Reddit via Google Searches because it remains important for finding key information.
I’m content playing with Lemmy as my main mobile “app”.
There’s so much community knowledge on reddit, it’s kinda painful to see everyone deleting all their historical comments and posts.
I get it, but still that’s information presumably lost forever.
What is information archival on the Fediverse like? Is there any advantage to Reddit?
Also if I understand last discussions, it’s not clear how well the Fediverse currently behaves with Google searches.
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