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Got off my call with Reddit just now about the API. Bad news unless I come up with 20 million dollars (not joking). Appreciate boosts. reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comment…

Reddit - Dive into anything

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Charlie Fish
Charlie Fish
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Just another reason to push for decentralized social services.
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Gracjan Nowak
Gracjan Nowak
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There’s a #Reddit alternative that’s a part of the #Fediverse (just how Mastodon is). It’s called #Lemmy. Maybe people can move to that. 🤔 join-lemmy.org

Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse

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ozoned
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I personally was on Lemmy a few years ago. Seems to work great. Too bad I felt compelled to leave as every time I'd post a news article from BBC, CNN, Reuters, etc I was called a CIA agent, or propaganda troll, someone pushing fake news, etc. I was made to feel very unwelcome, even though I was posting these things in channels for news. Hopefully it's become a more welcoming place.
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Ji Fu
Ji Fu
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@ozoned @Christian Selig @Gracjan Nowak @Charlie Fish sounds like you were on lemmy.ml. There are other instances: beehaw.org, midwest.social, &lemmy.ca I've all found to be welcoming & "moderate."
@Charlie Fish @Christian Selig @ozoned @Gracjan Nowak
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James Dreben :mw:
James Dreben :mw:
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#Apollo is the only way I use #Reddit. Can Apollo be rebuilt for #Lemmy? Would love to see an alternative to Reddit we can move to. I haven’t used Lemmy enough so far to comment.
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maegul
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@Jdreben all I know is that lemmy happily has a hard separation between its backend and frontend, including having a semi official alternative frontend that is more like a forum. So I’m betting it’s more than possible.

There probably need to be more lemmy instances put up. The sort of flagship has a particular vibe that isn’t for everyone and takes a while to get an account on. Some diversity could go a long way in this moment.

@James Dreben :mw:
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James Dreben :mw:
James Dreben :mw:
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Thank you! I think I heard of this before in passing but haven't checked it out. Awesome.
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Resuna
Resuna
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I guess they don't want competing apps. At all. Which is probably a logical thing for them to want. But I think it's past time to go back to Usenet.
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Cassidy James Blaede
Cassidy James Blaede
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serious question: would it be cheaper—or even possible—to basically proxy the Reddit API through your own Apollo servers so you only make any given request from Reddit once? Any way to investigate if that would actually be a feasible solution?
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Ji Fu
Ji Fu
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@Cassidy James :endless: :gg: @Christian Selig why do you see value in this as opposed to say increasing the usability of free and open federated services like kbin or lemmy?
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Erlend Sogge Heggen
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time for Apollo to have its @ivory moment and become an interface for @LemmyDev and @ernest’s kbin instead of Reddit?

Reddit’s value is in its content, which it doesn’t fully own since it’s user-generated. Apollo can join the #fediverse

1. Set up an ActivityPub-based link aggregator.
2. Continuously import key sub-reddits onto that instance (especially front page)
3. Apollo app interfaces with self-hosted API and other #activitypub instances.

I would so gladly pay for this.

#fediverse #ActivityPub @Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink: @ernest @LemmyDev
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Sean Tilley
Sean Tilley
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that's just so insane to me. Clients are a huge boon to platforms; pricing developers out is actively hostile to almost everyone.

If things go from worse to worst, maybe it might be worth considering building for the fediverse, kind of like what Tapbots is doing? There's a Reddit alternative called Lemmy that pretty much replaces most of Reddit's main functionality.

join-lemmy.org/

Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse

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