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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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[–] Thorvid_botlakhan@kbin.social 121 points 1 year ago (3 children)

goood!
Reddit behaved in such a horrible way, that I feel like API pricing was the least of the bad...

One could argue about their fairness and aim to destroy 3rd party apps, and I had already closed my accounts at that very step.

But the way they treated mods, forced subs to open and behaved like pure evil assholes, I really see how companies or more "official" subreddits with a touch of interest in their users, would feel the desire to leave and close bridges

[–] mxjzm@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I feel the same way.
As an Apollo user, I didn’t immediately leave since I wanted to see if some agreement would be done.

But the way they treated the devs is insulting, I work on IT and know a bit of how complex and time consuming this is; doing all this work just to be considered a parasite to be cut, and seeing how horrible the AMA was; really showed Reddit’s true colors.

Currently liking this federated initiative, big potential and less company ruining agenda. Very comfy here.

[–] MsPenguinette@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Apollo works things out with reddit, I'd be willing to consider keeping reddit as a secondary source of content. But I think that bridge has been burnt so bad that that is highly unlikely

[–] Pixelologist@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The Apollo dev (Christian) is understandably not interested in working with reddit at all at this point.

As an aside https://wefwef.app is a fediverse web app that's heavily inspired by apollo

[–] albatross@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, if you're used to apollo, wefwef.app is surprisingly amazing! hard to believe its running in the browser

[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@albatross
@MsPenguinette @Pixelologist

Artemis, an app in development for kbin, is also heavily inspired by Apollo (hence the name also being a Greek god starting with A and known for their skills with the bow)

[–] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That is amazing! Thank you for sharing. My new Lemmy start up page.

[–] midas@ymmel.nl 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't even use Apollo but the defining moment for me was when spez lied about his interactions with the dev. That shit is foul and I just do not want to associate with that.

[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@midas

Very much my experience. I used Relay for Reddit rather than Apollo (hadn't even heard of Apollo at the time), then learned about the entire debacle because that lie appeared in /r/quityourbullshit and that sent me to the AMA the lie was made in.

I went from not even knowing about any changes coming to Reddit to deciding not to give Reddit any more traffic until they back off and apologize in less than an hour. The blackout hadn't started yet.

By the time the blackout had started, I was already on both kbin and beehaw (well, I had applied to beehaw, approval might have been slightly after the blackout started) and the chances of getting me to ever use Reddit being above zero were already dependent on changes that no-one in Reddit leadership would ever accept, let alone come up with on their own.

[–] RedditRefugeeTom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Didn't even think about it until now, but a company could start their own lemmy service. Wonder if that's a thing already or will become a thing. The only issue for them is would other instances federated with them, if I'm correct? Still new and learning.

[–] Quill7513 1 points 1 year ago

Meta is setting up an Instagram feature with activitypub

[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't even care about the API prices and I used to use the official Reddit mobile app before migrating.

I've been looking for an open source Reddit like platform since the Twitter drama started and people started migrating to Mastodon, but there wasn't much content on them, until now, so I jumped on the band wagon.

[–] Yasuke@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I felt this. I just honestly needed another option and so star this seems to be it. I don’t understand the difference between kbin and lemmy. I’m hoping apps just end up supporting both platforms/instances.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The underhanded, lying, victim blaming actions from reddit were so much worse than the shutdown on its own. If reddit had been more honest about their intentions of shutting down 3PA from the beginning, 3PA users still wouldn't have been thrilled, but we wouldn't be seeing this reddit meltdown.