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Since many of us are trying to avoid giving reddit any traffic, this space can be used to discuss Apollo, our dreams of seeing it join the Fediverse, and to give our appreciation to @christianselig@mastodon.social for his incredible work.

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Christian regarding Apollo for Lemmy and open-sourcing Apollo (reddit.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by UgandaSans@reddthat.com to c/apolloapp@reddthat.com

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Are you building an app for InsertRedditCompetitor? I am not.

There are other reddit “competitors” out there, but Lemmy/Kbin is the main one, so I wonder why he didn’t name drop it. It’s odd that he chooses to not pursue this or atleast make it easier for the community, considering he is very active on Mastodon. Perhaps he doesn’t see monetary value in creating Apollo for Lemmy since he already made millions off of Apollo and currently with Pixel Pals

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/182v1it/_/kam3jaf/?context=1 Christian’s thoughts on open-sourcing Apollo (Not happening). Would’ve made it a whole lot easier to port Apollo to Lemmy, but we have many great alternatives now, so not a huge issue. Still, would’ve been useful for a lot of developers to see how he implemented some features.

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes me too.

On the other hand: If he has no desire to deliver a new client is it really that surprising someone steps in?

I’m not cross. He has every right to decide what to do with his software. But to expect others not to learn from his lessons seems a bit odd to me, tbh.