I know he wants a break. But I would love to see Apollo for Lemmy
mlem is planning a stable iOS release by 6/30, and using Apollo for inspiration. You won’t need to wait long.
This pleases me. It has so much potential but right now, compared to Apollo, it feels like taking a step back to the Stone Age.
Me too, but I think the Reddit and Lemmy APIs are sufficiently different that he would effectively have to rebuild most of the app. I have high hopes for https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem, I’m in the TestFlight, but it’s too incomplete to actually use currently. Still, I’ll miss Apollo itself far more than Reddit.
Yeah, I’m using Mlem for now. It’s pretty crashy right now and feature incomplete but hope to see it get better
I really like Mlem so far. It’s a lot more stable and put-together than I would have expected for such an early dev version. I also have high hopes for the app.
With that said, Apollo was the app I used the most on my phone and it was probably one of the best-designed apps out there. I will really miss it come the end of this month.
On the android side, jabroa is kinda clunky. Hoping some other people step up to the plate.
Jabroa isn’t fully fleshed out yet either, but it does at least have a more complete feature set at the momeent. It’s mostly usable for day to day Lemmy browsing. Mlem isn’t there yet. Sounds like the dev is making great strides, so hopefully soon.
I’m excited to see how fast both develop. The difference between Jerboa today and a couple days ago is pretty amazing. Things are moving quickly
The death of Apollo is literally why I’m starting to look at online spaces other than Reddit as my go-to
Same. Apollo = Reddit for me. Take Apollo out and I have no way to access Reddit (that I’d want to use).
Man, really fuck Spez. Christian just seems like such a genuinely good guy, who just was trying to build something great using Apple’s tools. The way he details the huge shift of direction from early 2023 to now in regards to them having no plans to change the API smells a lot like corpo-influence sinking their teeth in Spez and forcing this change ahead of the IPO.
Hopefully we can prove that this new model works and can be sustained long-term, and Christian can be enticed to revamp Apollo for the fediverse.
u/spez is Steve Huffman (if you even genuinely believe he’s been running the account these days).
The u/spez account will likely die along with his position. Meanwhile, Steve Huffman will get a golden parachute and laugh all the way to the bank.
Do not forget his name is Steve Huffman. Also, do not forget that he used to be a mod of r/jailbait and is almost certainly a paedophile.
I agree with the anger toward spez, but I think many of us are missing that he isn’t a lone actor. He is solely the face. Based on his history, he doesn’t have the skills to strongarm an entire company with the size and influence of Reddit. There’s an entire board and team of assistants and consultants that are advising him. He is the face of a larger group that is pushing this movement, while he is mostly voicing that group’s opinion. I really think that this understanding needs to spread among us because that group can merely change the face of the voice to continue their trajectory without any true change, causing us to be caught off guard and falling for their self-centered greed.
Right now, the Fediverse, specifically Lemmy and kbin, have a lot of momentum going due to recent events related to Apollo, spez’s AMA, and the blackout. This momentum is capable of making the Fediverse a success stable alternative to Reddit, but it will only succeed if the pressure for it to succeed continues. However, while many of us here are dead set on never returning to Reddit, we need to hit a critical mass of determined refugees to sustain this movement. Therefore, all Reddit really needs to do is come out with some way of reducing that momentum for long enough to quell the movement. After that, they can go back to implementing their changes. While I don’t have Reddit’s finances available, I’m assuming they have or can access the financial means to slow the momentum down enough to quell the rebellion.
If some of those apps were able to be functional with their interfaces over here it sure would help. Sounded like the Red Reader dev, even though it’s safe on Reddit for now, is looking at making it compatible with multiple platforms, presumably including Fediverse. Hope they can come soon enough to keep up the momentum.
I would love to see Christian make an Apollo variant for Lemmy at this point.
I don’t think he’s up for it, to be honest. If he was he’d have made an Android app by now.
How is making an android app related? Christian is really into IOS and making great experiences on it (he worked at Apple at one point).
Making a great Reddit experience on android is using a different tool set to create the same / a similar product and that isn’t super interesting for a developer. Business wise, he has a few other IOS apps that he will likely focus on now instead of Apollo.
I’m glad to see Christian has kept his head in all of this craziness. If you pay attention, he has not once pointed the finger back at Reddit and said outright “they are trying to kill 3rd party apps”. He has been careful to keep the line open in case Reddit comes calling.
I hope he does something else past his Pixel Pals app because I am excited to follow him into his next project. We can all only hope it’s an app for the fediverse!
