And with it goes me using Reddit, too. The official app is just sooooo bad and I barely check Reddit on my computer.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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Going to miss using Apollo. Great design and Christian built it with the user experience first.
This was the final nail for me. I'm moving over to Lemmy full time and will be nuking my reddit account soon.
Anyone know what the best way to delete all reddit comments and posts is?
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RIF have announced they will shut down on the 30th too. No word from BaconReader yet (my time wasting app of choice) but I'm guessing they'll go down as well. Such a sad situation all round.
The unfortunate underlying issue is the API pricing is by and large not sustainable. Even if a third-party application has not announced they cannot continue operations, the lack of announcement does not mean they plan to or continue. I can see the want of biding time and waiting in this circumstance, but ultimately I don't see any third-party application staying active in an above-board manner if the API pricing is launched as is.
Apollo, RIF, and Sync announcing they are shuttering adds additional pressure to the matter.
The comments from FlyingLaserTurtle in particular were just AWFUL. Just straight up gaslighting.
In case anyone wants to delete all their reddit comment and posts before leaving, I used this nice little product that did it automatically for me:
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I mean. That announcement might’ve convinced me to delete my account over there and dive in completely to Beehaw.
It might’ve done that 😉
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That was the final straw for me too. Currently purging all my accounts from Reddit now. I look forward to being a part of this community.
Holy shit. I just loaded up the op from the apolo sub and read through it. Then i made the mistake of attempting to read the comments. Absolutely impossible. Its like opening a flood gate and letting the ocean poor in!
I'll use rif until the last day, but i've been spending much more of that time on reddit here, and less time on social media in general.
I'm honestly, sad for the developers who can no longer afford to keep their passion projects going, that's awful and fuck reddit for that. But personally, this is such a positive change I need in my life as a consumer of social media.
It's very sad to see this happen, all things considered.
reddit might not be what it was when I first joined it, but I spent many years there and had a good time. I mostly used RIF on Android, but for a while last year I had an iPhone (a gift) and used Apollo. It was the closest thing to RIF in the App Store.
If you're on iOS and want to help him, he also has this app that he'll depend on from now on: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6443919232