Are you building an app for InsertRedditCompetitor? I am not.
There are other reddit “competitors” out there, but Lemmy/Kbin is the main one, so I wonder why he didn’t name drop it. It’s odd that he chooses to not pursue this or atleast make it easier for the community, considering he is very active on Mastodon. Perhaps he doesn’t see monetary value in creating Apollo for Lemmy since he already made millions off of Apollo and currently with Pixel Pals
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/182v1it/_/kam3jaf/?context=1 Christian’s thoughts on open-sourcing Apollo (Not happening). Would’ve made it a whole lot easier to port Apollo to Lemmy, but we have many great alternatives now, so not a huge issue. Still, would’ve been useful for a lot of developers to see how he implemented some features.
I saw a bit of that on the microblogging part of fedi (er, Mastodon), firstly saying it was creepy how close it was, then months later he posted something that was obviously showing he wasn’t pleased. I chimed in saying it’s out of love for the original app, not out of any malice.
He worked hard on adding features we wanted, and some we didn’t even know we wanted, so he feels it’s not a form of flattery, more like it’s easy and takes not a lot of effort to copy like that.
Well he’s not interested in implementing those in Lemmy nor opensourcing it so…
As a hobbyist programmer, I would say it wouldn’t be easy to implement per se, but I might be taking that a bit literally. I can understand that sorta feeling to an extent, though - I don’t think the Voyager devs meant any illwill towards him, hence why I posted that.