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  • wreck@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This makes me so sad, Christian is amazing. I bought a lifetime subscription for Pixel Pals. I’m sure he’s going to do many more great things.

  • tango_octogono@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The more I dive the worse it smells. Willing to bet this situation would be less worse if they just came out and said “Alright guys sorry but we’re banning 3rd party apps”, instead they make more and more lies

  • good_hunter@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    My Reddit life started with Apollo 8 years ago, and it will end on the 30th. Thank you

  • Jeff@social.rights.ninja
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    2 years ago

    @dylan

    It’s definitely a shame that reddit is making these changes. The fall of reddit is going to have pretty negative affect for a lot of people.

    I’m no fan of corpo platforms—I’d love more widespread adoption of open protocols and software—but I don’t want _users_ to get hurt by the loss.

    • doctorcherry@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      The decline of Reddit is a great shame. But the model of social media companies needing to IPO and make profit always hurts users in the long run. When Reddit do IPO more decisions will be made that make the experience worse for users simply because the interests of the platform owners will no longer be aligned with the interests of the users. We can’t know how things will work out but at least the fediverse model is new and is theoretically more sustainable.

  • s0er3n@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Instead of closing down it would be cool for 3rd party apps to switch to Lemmy but I know it would be a lot of work.

    • Coliver@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The Apollo dev mentioned something like this but said he is burned out and had no interest in starting a competing thing.

    • NateNate60@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Seriously. They’ve released the backend code, why not release the frontend too? Open-source is definitely viable, if the developer just lets the project rot, they’ll get nothing from it, but if they just slap the GPL on it and work with the community on a fork, then they would end up leading a nice open-source project. I’d love to see Lemmy gaining a bunch of users too; that’s definitely be nice.

        • NateNate60@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          The developer would need to cooperate because the code that makes the actual app is currently closed-source.

          If they release it under a FOSS license then the community can step in and help maintain the codebase.