Looks like Apollo is now dead boys and girls. Feels like having a loved one die

  • Bagel@lemmy.caEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t processed what it means yet. I’m still at the first stage of grief.

  • bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.orgEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • 70ms@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.”

  • phario@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    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”.

        • LostRedditor@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Old.reddit would not show comments anymore. It will direct you to reddit.

          So I believe they might stop working at any moment.

      • SuspiciousUser@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        On iOS I sideload Reddit+ with AltStore (no jailbreak needed). It gets rid of all the ads, promoted content and whatnot. Other than that, I also use Inoreader app with the RSS.

    • MentalEdgeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I feel like Lemmy will only grow from here.

      So many old subs have popped up and become properly active.

      • phario@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I find that a lot of Lemmy people are positing a vision that won’t exist, which is that there’s going to be a great migration to Lemmy. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

        But the key is that you don’t need the hundreds of millions that Reddit has. You can argue that you don’t even want it.

        What I want is a return to the 2000-era bulletin board-type numbers where each community would have on the order of a few hundred or thousand active participants.

        • MentalEdgeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The thing is, I suspect the Fediverse could do both.

          There might one day be giant single instances, that are in themselves, a reddit, but also tiny ones with tiny communities just doing their own thing.

          I don’t think Lemmy or the fediverse will go down anytime soon, but I’m not imagining some sudden spike of explosive growth beyond what we’ve already seen. I don’t think anyone does.

          We’re just optimistic about the future of this incarnation of social media!

    • smort@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • phario@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • DuckGuy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Today Christian pushed an update so people could export their Pixel Pals to his other app. I don’t think he thought Apollo would crash so I reckon he will push one final update soon.

    Edit: nevermind, Apollo doesn’t crash anymore.