Currently sitting on the toilet and browsing reddit trough Apollo one last time 💔
Currently sitting on the toilet and browsing reddit trough Apollo one last time 💔
Do you know if these other webapps have the points/karma feature like wefwef does?
Lemmy.world does NOT offer a point count, just a count on number of comments/posts.
No point totals/karma on Lemmy in general (technically the data is all there). A lot of people are treating this as a feature, not a bug.
Not sure, I’m still super new with Lemmy. Apparently kbin has something like that, though it makes it a bit pointless if the points aren’t visible and relevant on all lemmy instances. Wish lemmy had a karma-like system. Seems pretty important to further incentivize posting and encourage higher quality posts
To be fair, they allegedly weren't profitable.
Which I prefer. I'd prefer a general communal forum to be non-profit, user supported, and moderation decentralized.
Allegedly, yes. Where did the millions of dollars of revenue go, from all the ads and sponsors (which completely infest their app)?
Reddit execs decided they needed thousands (?!) of employees, despite mods running the subreddits for free. They could never make an app as fully featured as those with literally one employee. And it took years for them to deliver promised features and mod tools (many are very recent or still unavailable).
Lemmy and Mastodon, and all their apps, are running thanks mostly to a few dozen awesome people and donations.
Where did Reddit's millions of dollars disappear to again? And how is that not damning proof of their current execs incompetence?
(Note: I direct this /rant in Reddit's general direction.)
It's easy to make $300,000,000 in funding into a "nonprofitable" company.
You just pay the people running it more than you have. Then usually claim loses on your taxes.
Sure it wasn’t profitable, but the money they were asking for was insane.
No one was against them charging for the api, they were against the insane prices and how the whole thing was handled.
Spez just trying to cash out as much for the IPO and fucking it all up.
Any company can be unprofitable if you have 100x the staff you need working on features that make the site worse or are scams
Allegedly, but reddit also spent tons of money on stupid shit. My favorite example is their braindead stupid million dollar Superbowl ad, but they also doubled the number of employees to 1400 in 2021. And all they have to show for it is a slow, ugly website and a trashy, extra-monetized mobile app. Fuck em.
Oh definitely fuck em. I'm just saying, they didn't have a "good thing going" where they could just sit back and make millions.
Just when I was reading Christian’s farewell post too. All so needless. Oh well.. hello Lemmy!!
RIP Apollo and the rest of the 3rd party apps. I used Apollo everyday for the past couple of years and while I’m on here I still feel disbelief that it’s about to shut down.
I’m running the macOS Sonoma beta. It has that new add-to-dock feature that essentially makes any web page feel more like a local app.
I know that’s not a new concept, but the implementation is really nice.
I guess Steve was right! Webapps are the future!
What males me happy is that if the devs make a native app that means I can likely continue using it on desktop as well.
It seems I get to have add free relay for a little while longer, as I paid for it a long time ago and u/dbrady seems to be working on a monthly subscription thing with Reddit.
I have mixed feelings. I've been successfully weaning myself off Reddit, and already had a little 'final visit to the app' a day or so ago, so I don't think I'll have much use of the 'extra' time on the SFW Reddit.
My contributions were mostly jokes in the comments (some were actually pretty damn good, others admittedly terrible) and personal shit I was working out over the almost eleven years I've shared with Reddit. I've considered deleting everything, but it was a lot of me talking to the abyss, and it sometimes talking back at me. I feel like letting my words linger and die there with bots picking at their cadavers has its charm.
never realized how perfect this meme format is for the situation that's currently ongoing
Try WefWef instead; it's an Apollo carbon copy. The only thing that can satiate my addiction now.
Most of the connection bugs are now permanently fixed as this was issue with Lemmy.world as for bugs I kid you not the developer has churned 4 updates in ONE day. Features are being added constantly and bugs are being squashed left and right. And if you still have trouble then you can mention it on the community page to help it improve.
Yeah I saw the updates throughout the day. Impressive. I'm still not 100% sure where I'll settle quite yet. Still bouncing around till I feel that sweet spot.
What time do the apps actually go down? Is there a specific cutoff or will they all just die one by one?
I think Apollo literally just died a minute or two ago. Was using it when it suddenly just crashed. Now every time I open it, it crashes almost instantly.
According to the dev Reddit pulled the plug early
Well, here I am. Fuck Spez. Apollo was the best and the official Reddit app is pure shit. It’s a shame. Now I’m testing thunder and memmy. I really hope I can find a new home here
Try Wefwef. It’s a carbon copy of Apollo for Lemmy. You’ll feel right at home. Make sure you add it to your home screen for the best experience.
Blows my mind how some corporations would make more money doing literally nothing then they just completely ruin it