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Currently sitting on the toilet and browsing reddit trough Apollo one last time 💔
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Rip. Sync just got rate limited.
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Got a nice surprise for you — wefwef.app
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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.
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I like not having karma. Actual conversations might be possible.
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Same just happened to Apollo
Yup, now the waiting game for sync for lemmy!
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.
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It just went down the rate limits are happening :,(
Just when I was reading Christian’s farewell post too. All so needless. Oh well… hello Lemmy!!
Same for me 🥲
Same
i think in that case - fully supported
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.
Put your API changes away, Waltuh
Skyler be singing happy cake day to u/spez in the most cringey way possible
Rip Apollo and Reddit , welcome lemmy !
Try out wefwef.app
It’s spooky how close it is to Apollo
wefwef is also great as a desktop app.
WHOA. I’m trying this on my desktop next!!
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.
Even if they never go native, the experiences great so far. I’m impressed.
RIP just tried for the last time and won’t open. I’ll miss it.
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.
I’m gonna use the extra time to help more people over to Lemmy
Had to remove RIF as well last night. Sad times.
Apollo just stopped for me… 🫡
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Just stopped for me… Feels like the end of the Truman show…
never realized how perfect this meme format is for the situation that’s currently ongoing
Testing out Mlem for Lemmy and loving it. Has a very Apollo like feel to it! RIP Apollo!
Try WefWef instead; it’s an Apollo carbon copy. The only thing that can satiate my addiction now.
Wefwef looked and felt nice but was too buggy for me. Mlem is pretty nice so far.
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.
Still working over here
I see. Maybe it’s going to die off in waves of users. It’s 100% stopped working for me.
Same thing is happening to me. Didn’t happen until I made the final update though.
I think it’s just a coincidence. Had to stop working at some point today anyway :/
According to the dev Reddit pulled the plug early
It just crashes a few seconds after I launch the app :-(
Well-deserved RIP to one of the greatest apps ever
Crashes on open for me now. Sad day
