Apollo and developer Christian Selig were rallying points for the protests across Reddit this month. After Selig said he would have to shut down Apollo because it would cost him around $20 million per year to keep the app going, other developers said they would have to close up shop, too. Thousands of subreddits said they would go dark in protest — many people prefer third-party apps to Reddit’s official ones. Reddit, however, hasn’t budged, and many apps will be going away before July 1st.
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I have to say that I was a bit confused about Lemmy / Fediverse, but after actually sitting down and reading up about it all, I took the plunge and dived in. I have been slowly unsubscribing from reddit subs and finding alternates over on this side. So far so good. Hopefully other people will follow suit.
