this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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Apollo - A beautiful app built for power and speed.

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Since many of us are trying to avoid giving reddit any traffic, this space can be used to discuss Apollo, our dreams of seeing it join the Fediverse, and to give our appreciation to @[email protected] for his incredible work.

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[–] kratoz29 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He DOES keep referencing his "Next Big Thing™"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Imagine it’s a X app.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I don't see any incentive for me to go back to a subscription based app for lemmy now that we've got so many great Apollo-like apps for it. I'm currently using Memmy and it's amazing

[–] kratoz29 9 points 1 year ago

Well, this is true, it is gonna be an interesting experiment, if he decides to get in at this point he needs to deliver the best app ever, that or have some good incentives to reconsider, at the end of the day we users are the only winners.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, he had a great thing with Apollo but I don’t think he’d want to keep doing it, especially for a much smaller platform like ours. We also have lots of great homegrown apps inspired by Apollo. I think it’s time for the torch to pass to the next generation of developers. Christian will probably do other great things.

[–] kratoz29 13 points 1 year ago

I hear you, currently using Voyager from an Android phone.

[–] Epicurus0319 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s possible, I mean RiF’s developer just made one for another reddit alternative (though not a federated one). But with so many mobile lemmy apps already in existence now (and with a native ios app for voyager starting to be worked on), at this point Christian would have a lot to live up to.

[–] kratoz29 3 points 1 year ago

I hear you, currently using Voyager ON ANDROID, oh boy how many times I dreamed about having Apollo on Android lol (at least before knowing about Boost and Sync for Reddit).