this post was submitted on 01 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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[–] Hotbiscuit 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair I wouldn’t blame him for wanting to take a break for a bit after developing Apollo for so long. Would have to be so frustrating and sad to have a project you work so hard on torn from you.

[–] nvts 15 points 2 years ago

Indeed - if something similar happened to me I’d loose hope on humanity. He immensely popularized Reddit on iOS and spez and Reddit admins treated him like POS.

[–] Enamel94 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly, wefwef.app. Although a strange name is probably the closest thing I’ve found on Lemmy!

[–] Skaryon 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Memmy too scratches the Apollo itch for me. Extremely busy dev!

[–] TheEternalBambi 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Found that Memmy scratched the Apollo itch best for me.

[–] ccunning 10 points 2 years ago

Memmy is OK.

But wefwef is an exact clone of Apollo…

[–] Kerandir 6 points 2 years ago

Really? I find it confusing in a way, wefwef is more clear to me in a sense. On Memmy I’m no t quite understanding if I’m seeing all the fediverse or only a portion. On wefwef I understand where I am more clearly

[–] Seasons 9 points 2 years ago

I’ve been using the TestFlight ‘Mlem’

Both wefwef and Mlem have good features the other doesn’t so I’ve been using both lol

[–] kynshp 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

He mentioned that he’s on Twitter and Mastodon in his farewell post. Maybe he’ll create a 3rd party app for one of those?

[–] devdad 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Didn’t Twitter already fuck over TPAs?

[–] kynshp 9 points 2 years ago

Yup, you’re right I wasn’t even thinking about that.

[–] LimeStone 4 points 2 years ago
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[–] crunchypotat77 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm actually surprised he hasn't addressed any comments asking him to do a Lemmy app.

[–] turquoise 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He has on occasion, especially early on.

He stated that he has no interest in doing so for now.

[–] crunchypotat77 10 points 2 years ago

Ah. I must've missed it. Sad.

[–] phoneymouse 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] ccunning 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wefwef is amazing.

This is the first time I’ve felt Lemmy could be a viable replacement to Reddit for me.

[–] Reid 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same, using it for the first time today and could easily get used to this!

[–] ccunning 7 points 2 years ago

Yes!

I now feel motivated to start contributing to Lemmy communities. This all feels viable for the first time.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Memmy is also a good option

[–] zav 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bean is by far the best Apollo-like client so far

[–] Jumper775 1 points 1 year ago

Where can I try it out?

[–] OutdoorDining 4 points 2 years ago

Using this right now

Fills my Apollo fix.

[–] Paulius 10 points 2 years ago

Apollo for Lemmy would be great. I’d definitely pay money for it. For now, I’m trying wefwef. I love it so far.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

On a episode of The Talk Show, Christian said Lemmy and Kbin are too young and uncertain for him to invest this kind of work and dedication at this time. :~

[–] MrSebSin 5 points 2 years ago

Not sure he’s on here. I know he does use Mastodon which is part of the Fediverse.

[–] pupperino 2 points 2 years ago

I wonder if he’d be willing to open source it if he doesn’t want to change the backend to support Lemmy, Kbin, etc.