I know he wants a break. But I would love to see Apollo for Lemmy
mlem is planning a stable iOS release by 6/30, and using Apollo for inspiration. You won’t need to wait long.
Me too, but I think the Reddit and Lemmy APIs are sufficiently different that he would effectively have to rebuild most of the app. I have high hopes for https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem, I’m in the TestFlight, but it’s too incomplete to actually use currently. Still, I’ll miss Apollo itself far more than Reddit.
I would love to see Christian make an Apollo variant for Lemmy at this point.
Christian is such a class act. He doesn’t take things personal; he doesn’t get angry or play their game. He just shares his truth in a calm, objective, but confident manner. I would love for him to become more prominent outside of Reddit drama because I’m sure that anything he works on will become successful and mutually beneficial to all parties involved. If I managed a large tech organization, I’d be calling to recruit him. Certainly, other tech corporations are following this and wondering how they can get him to come work for them.
Class act is a great way to put it. I agree, he’s a credit to indie developers everywhere. And actually his “take the high road” approach is such a contrast with Spez’s unprofessional behaviour, that it just serves to make the latter look even worse.
Man, really fuck Spez. Christian just seems like such a genuinely good guy, who just was trying to build something great using Apple’s tools. The way he details the huge shift of direction from early 2023 to now in regards to them having no plans to change the API smells a lot like corpo-influence sinking their teeth in Spez and forcing this change ahead of the IPO.
Hopefully we can prove that this new model works and can be sustained long-term, and Christian can be enticed to revamp Apollo for the fediverse.
u/spez is Steve Huffman (if you even genuinely believe he’s been running the account these days).
The u/spez account will likely die along with his position. Meanwhile, Steve Huffman will get a golden parachute and laugh all the way to the bank.
Do not forget his name is Steve Huffman. Also, do not forget that he used to be a mod of r/jailbait and is almost certainly a paedophile.
I agree with the anger toward spez, but I think many of us are missing that he isn’t a lone actor. He is solely the face. Based on his history, he doesn’t have the skills to strongarm an entire company with the size and influence of Reddit. There’s an entire board and team of assistants and consultants that are advising him. He is the face of a larger group that is pushing this movement, while he is mostly voicing that group’s opinion. I really think that this understanding needs to spread among us because that group can merely change the face of the voice to continue their trajectory without any true change, causing us to be caught off guard and falling for their self-centered greed.
Right now, the Fediverse, specifically Lemmy and kbin, have a lot of momentum going due to recent events related to Apollo, spez’s AMA, and the blackout. This momentum is capable of making the Fediverse a success stable alternative to Reddit, but it will only succeed if the pressure for it to succeed continues. However, while many of us here are dead set on never returning to Reddit, we need to hit a critical mass of determined refugees to sustain this movement. Therefore, all Reddit really needs to do is come out with some way of reducing that momentum for long enough to quell the movement. After that, they can go back to implementing their changes. While I don’t have Reddit’s finances available, I’m assuming they have or can access the financial means to slow the momentum down enough to quell the rebellion.
The death of Apollo is literally why I’m starting to look at online spaces other than Reddit as my go-to
This is an excellent interview that lays out the situation really well, though it’s not really new information if you’ve been following the story. Sounds like Christian really would have been willing to work with them and they just threw that opportunity away at every possible point.
That’s a very informative interview, I hope it gets some reach. It’s the details that make this case so damning.
I’m so done with reddit. This won’t be the end I’m sure, it’s too big to die, but it can only get worse from here.
Myspace was huge and essentially died. Same with Digg. I don’t think Reddit is too big to die.
