Looks like Apollo is now dead boys and girls. Feels like having a loved one die

  • Bagel@lemmy.caEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t processed what it means yet. I’m still at the first stage of grief.

  • bagfatnick@kulupu.duckdns.orgEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    When this saga began, I didn’t think I’d be struggling with such a sense of disconnect with the loss of an app of all things. However, I do feel that Christian’s eulogy for Apollo helped, a gentle reminder to “smile because it happened”. Here’s to moving on.

  • phario@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    So at the moment my “workflow” is to completely stop accessing Reddit via mobile apps. I’ll still use Reddit via Google Searches because it remains important for finding key information.

    I’m content playing with Lemmy as my main mobile “app”.

    • smort@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      There’s so much community knowledge on reddit, it’s kinda painful to see everyone deleting all their historical comments and posts.

      I get it, but still that’s information presumably lost forever.

      • phario@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        What is information archival on the Fediverse like? Is there any advantage to Reddit?

        Also if I understand last discussions, it’s not clear how well the Fediverse currently behaves with Google searches.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I feel like Lemmy will only grow from here.

      So many old subs have popped up and become properly active.

      • phario@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I find that a lot of Lemmy people are positing a vision that won’t exist, which is that there’s going to be a great migration to Lemmy. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

        But the key is that you don’t need the hundreds of millions that Reddit has. You can argue that you don’t even want it.

        What I want is a return to the 2000-era bulletin board-type numbers where each community would have on the order of a few hundred or thousand active participants.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The thing is, I suspect the Fediverse could do both.

          There might one day be giant single instances, that are in themselves, a reddit, but also tiny ones with tiny communities just doing their own thing.

          I don’t think Lemmy or the fediverse will go down anytime soon, but I’m not imagining some sudden spike of explosive growth beyond what we’ve already seen. I don’t think anyone does.

          We’re just optimistic about the future of this incarnation of social media!

    • redimk@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Just opened Sync because “I wanted to use it for one last time” and was hit with the 404… So sad to see a good app vanish like that…

      But I’m glad we’re getting Sync for Lemmy at the same time.