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📣 Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️(reddit.com)

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Jeff@social.rights.ninja
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@dylan

It’s definitely a shame that reddit is making these changes. The fall of reddit is going to have pretty negative affect for a lot of people.

I’m no fan of corpo platforms—I’d love more widespread adoption of open protocols and software—but I don’t want _users_ to get hurt by the loss.

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The decline of Reddit is a great shame. But the model of social media companies needing to IPO and make profit always hurts users in the long run. When Reddit do IPO more decisions will be made that make the experience worse for users simply because the interests of the platform owners will no longer be aligned with the interests of the users. We can’t know how things will work out but at least the fediverse model is new and is theoretically more sustainable.

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swnt@feddit.de
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My initial suggestion for the IPO was for Reddit users to buy off the majority of the shares 😄

But given the chaos right now, I don’t think this will work out anymore.

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