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Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Christian would be wise to start a Lemmy app. He would have a huge following right out the gate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think he’s done relying on API beyond his control. Understandable. As federated and open as lemmy / kbin is right now, there is still a chance for a large company built a tiny wall around it. Like gmail has done with email.