Looks like theres a final surprise in the form of a song in Apollo now that it’s closed.
Can anyone identify the artist?
EDIT: someone managed to find it. From Christian’s YouTube page:
A fun parody of Sarah McLachlan's I Will Remember You performed by the incredible Zoe Wynns
Crazy to see my lemmy account at <1m old when my Reddit one is 15yrs 11mo…kinda bummed I’m all but resigned to moving on just short of my sweet 16.
Hope to see these federated services take off!
RIP Apollo
No worries brosef. You’re early-adopting yet again. Give it time, and you’ll be one of the legacy guys once again.
I never thought about that... I'll be proud to show off my account age in a few years
This is the way.
Image Transcription: Image with Text:
[The mascot icon for the app 'Apollo for Reddit', a small cartoon-style astronaut's head, is shown smiling in from of a pink heart, with two smaller hearts floating above it. There is a white volume icon in the upper right corner and white text below the icon. The image has a black background.]
Apollo shut down on June 30th due to reddit making drastic and sudden increases to API pricing for developers.
It was an absolute honour to build Apollo for you all over the last 9 years, I loved every minute of it.
If you'd like to continue to support me, there's some options below!
- Christian (u/iamthatis)
^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
Good human
Glad to know you guys are still around ^-^
Glad to know we're still remembered
I’ve never needed the transcription service myself but it always warmed my heart when you guys pop up in a comment sections
Glad to see this has come to Lemmy! Keep up the great work friend!
Release Apollo app for Lemmy 🤷♀️
Wefwef app feels like I’m on Apollo. I love it
Yeah agreed. The migration feature from Apollo to wefwef is great too!
Yeah I’m using it as I type this and it is incredibly similar, almost eerily. I’m kind of hoping the developer gives it it’s own unique character and soul in the future. Or since it’s open source (I’m pretty sure?) someone else can.
But with that being said I still strongly recommend so far
I kinda like the fact that it’s just Apollo. As a Reddit refugee it helps to have something familiar
I hope that Christian will make an app for Lemmy! I think he'll take a break for a while to relax after dealing with reddit's bullshit.
RIP Apollo and fuck you spez 🖕
The amount of times I’ve opened the app due to muscle memory and seeing that screen…. Rip Apollo and fuck spez. I hope he steps on the pointiest of lego bricks.
Wefwef is not bad for a web app that you can add to your Home Screen. Mlem is basically inspired by Apollo, seems easy to use. It’s in TestFlight so you’ll have to download that and then grab the link to the beta.
There is another one called memmy, but I can’t find a working TestFlight link for that one as it requires a code to download.
I'm sure Christian is taking some time off to lick his wounds and regroup, and I truly hope he's able to move forward. If he makes a Lemmy app, I'll definitely jump on it.
If you’re not already try wefwef. I keep forgetting it’s not actually Apollo I’m using.
Hoping for the day Christian makes Apollo for Lemmy; I’d gladly pay for it
I'll miss Christian's community engagement. It was always so nice to see an engineer who loved his product. Hopefully we'll see him on the dark side;)
There is void left by Apollo - that I don't think will be filled for a long time.
I’d love to see Apollo rise from the ashes but I get how Christian must be feeling about the whole thing right now. Still, its legacy will live on. Standards have been set and I’m sure a lot of devs have taken inspiration from that.
Apollo was such a lovely experience. I still hope that Christian will rise up and produce something for iOS. I still keep looking for it's icon on my iPad Pro's dock!
I’m sad that Apollo is gone, but Memmy for Lemmy fills the hole left in my Home Screen just fine. The app has already progressed so far, it’s licensed under the GPL, and it has made my transition from Reddit to Lemmy flawless.
That's insane. The Parody is just Wow
It’s been fun, Apollo will be missed. I hope Christian will have a go at a fediverse app in the future.
Never used the app, tried it and thought it was great, but my use case for Reddit was too simple, so I stuck with the official app. Having said that, removing such option by Reddit was one of the main reasons that pushed me to this platform. It made me realize how much power these centerlised platforms have.
🎶 I will remember you
You will remember me
Don’t let your loooooove pass me by 🎶
Question. Who owns these lemmy sites? I understand it’s decentralized. Can someone breakdown exactly what that means? Who, if anyone, owns these sites/servers, how it all works?
Anyone can make their own server. Then those server talk to each other to share the posts, comments and votes. You are on lemmy.ee, I'm on lemmy.one, different owner, slightly different rules, but we see the same stuff
I hope the apollo developer makes an app for lemmy!
RIP Apollo. You were good to me
I will miss Apollo! I hope he makes a Lemmy client. Wefwef is the closest there is right now.
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