Currently sitting on the toilet and browsing reddit trough Apollo one last time 💔
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!!
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.)
To be fair, they allegedly weren’t profitable.
To be fair, the CEO was caught lying, on a recorded phone call.
Testing out Mlem for Lemmy and loving it. Has a very Apollo like feel to it! RIP Apollo!
They shut the API off early. RIP Apollo.
Was not expecting to find it dead, and went to launch it one last time. Gut punch.
I wonder if Reddit shut it off early just to be spiteful bastards.
“Gut punch” feels weirdly accurate.
Rip Apollo and Reddit , welcome lemmy !
