I heard about Lemmy from Mental Outlaw and it caught my interest. The Reddit API situation made me finally decide to drop Reddit and make an account on lemmy.world. I haven’t turned back since.

What about you, what brought you to the Fediverse?

  • CTDummy@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    The only useable app on ios (imo) for reddit for the longest time was Apollo. The dev had something like Kofi setup so people could toss him some money for his long term efforts. Reddit one day decides to charge for API use or something along those lines which would end up costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars (see end). I think they accused people of profiting off their API. Keep in mind Apollo was so popular because the reddit app was utter shit, but they can monetise users on their own app easier (and ads). An app a sizeable portion of the iOS community had been using for years, gone within weeks due to reddit greed. Fuck that place and fuck reddit staff.

    The app is still in the App Store, Christian’s eulogy says it best.

    Apollo was an iOS app for browsing Reddit from 2015 to 2023. In 2023 Reddit announced significant price changes to their API, going from free to potentially costing tens of millions of dollars per year, with 30 days notice before developers would start incurring charges. As a result, Apollo was forced to shut down after the better part of a decade building for an incredible, supportive community. With over 100,000 five star ratings, and many accolades, I was incredibly proud of what Apollo accomplished.