I’ve seen the app Apollo as the center of the reddit protest (it was mentioned and cited more than any other app in relevant posts). I’ve also seen many Lemmy clients in development taking inspiration from it.

As a lifetime Android user I’ve never been able to use it, and I’ve never gotten a proper answer to “why not just use the official app?” What made it different from the official application and other unofficial clients that consequently made it so popular among Redditors?

  • @Nando
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    121 year ago

    I’ve used Apollo since 2016, when I wanted to add a picture to my comment, I had just to touch the image icon to do it. Using Reddit’s official app I can’t find the way to upload a image to my comment (not to a post). It’s the same with nested comments, Apollo has a rainbow themed (customizable) nested comments, so it’s easy to navigate throw comments, but official one is just a subtle line almost invisible that difficult the reading experience.