Apollo dev on porting the app for Lemmy/kbin
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Spoiler alert: he currently doesn’t plan to. I keep reading people wondering about what Christian‘s stance is, so there you go.

Here’s a time stamp to the chapter if you wanna listen to more context, or the entire episode: https://castro.fm/episode/nltyqz#1:35:02

    • lucas@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Agreed. I’m amazed by the number of developers and apps - it’s incredible! If things had been quieter, I could’ve seen Christian being more tempted to try recreating the magic here.

      In a way I feel bad, I wonder if he feels people have ripped off his hard work? There are direct clones of his app.

      On the other hand, I guess it prompts exploring something entirely new, which is (selfishly) an exciting prospect for me and hopefully ends up being more rewarding for him.

      Having said that, when Tapbots waded into Mastadon with Ivory, it was so much better than everything else (as a fan of Tweetbot), so could see something similar here. There’s clearly a reason for these developers to have found success in the first place!

  • pacology@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I feel like it’s a combination of factors. First, I would want to stake my business on a platform that I don’t control given what happened with Reddit. Second, it must have been an emotional roller coaster going through the API stuff, so he is probably too burned out to start a new project.

    Edit: Third, the lemmy/kbin user base is much smaller than Reddit’s. I don’t know if he would be able to replicate Apollo’s success with a new backend.