Looks like Apollo is now dead boys and girls. Feels like having a loved one die
I haven’t processed what it means yet. I’m still at the first stage of grief.
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…
Holly molly. Dont chiken back to reddit now, specially their app.
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.
I’m sad now :( I’ll be even sadder tommorow once it sinks in
I’ve been processing since this was first announced. I bounce back and forth between depression and acceptance.
I’m sad now :( I’ll be even sadder tommorow once it sinks in
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I’m sad now :( I’ll be even sadder tommorow once it sinks in
Same dude. It didn’t have got to me how to live without RIF, so I’m still treating it like a momentary shutdown
Same dude. It didn’t have got to me how to live without RIF, so I’m still treating it like a momentary shutdown
RIF is as well. Sad times and stuff but I’m happy to be here instead.
GOAT app. Don’t have the heart to remove it from my phone
Me either. It’s just gonna sit there on my phone, having a well earned rest. Sleep well RIF.
Same. Will wait a few more weeks just out of respect :(
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’ll say here what I said there -
“This is like seeing someone steal the motorhome you’ve had tons of adventures and experiences in, and roll it over the edge of the Grand Canyon as you watch helplessly. It’s not just the loss of your comfy, customized motorhome, it’s all of the feelings and memories that are attached to it.”
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”.
Install https://libredirect.github.io/ to not give them any money lol
Is Teddit and Libreddit going to keep working through this?
Old.reddit would not show comments anymore. It will direct you to reddit.
So I believe they might stop working at any moment.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I feel like Lemmy will only grow from here.
So many old subs have popped up and become properly active.
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.
RIF just started returning error 429 as well. I sadly uninstalled it and then launched Jerboa instead.
I’ve had a ton of issues with Jerboa, but thus far Connect for Lemmy is working well!
Sync dead too.
I just used it for the last time I think. But I think we are into only minutes left…
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.
Yeah… instant crashing. It’s a weird feeling.
BaconReader is out
10 years on it for me. Hope there’s a Lemmy app or theme etc to replicate the feeling
Same for rif. Just made this account about 20 minutes aggo. Been comething here and there. Fuck Steve Huffman. Everyone who reads this, dont be chickening back to reddit now. Lets make this comunity ours.
Yup. It’s done. No more. Wow…. Well HELLLOOOOOOO LEMMMMINGS!!!
Now I’m like… what to do? Should I just let go completely?
What then?
End of an era. Apollo joins Alien Blue in app heaven. RIP.
My 12 year old account has joined them there. It looks like my time on Reddit is over.
The end of an era
I was sleeping, I woke up, checked that my boy has been murdered, now I can’t sleep peacefully. It hurts.
