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.
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.
To get push notification, something needs to ping the server now and then in order to check if there’s any update to push you. This is why Apollo ultra had a cost to it. I’d imagine eventually the self hosted version of wefwef can get push… public instance not so sure.
Oh. Ohhhhhhhh. That makes sense.
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…
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
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.
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
Thanks for the suggestion!
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.
Yup. It’s done. No more. Wow…. Well HELLLOOOOOOO LEMMMMINGS!!!
BaconReader is out
10 years on it for me. Hope there’s a Lemmy app or theme etc to replicate the feeling
Wefwef
RIP
Sync dead too.
Just opened Sync because “I wanted to use it for one last time” and was hit with the 404… So sad to see a good app vanish like that…
But I’m glad we’re getting Sync for Lemmy at the same time.
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.
The end of an era
R.I.P.
RIP Apollo 💔
Yup. It’s done. No more. Wow…. Well HELLLOOOOOOO LEMMMMINGS!!!
o7
