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. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
What a fantastic idea. They don’t even have to necessarily pivot their apps to actually be Lemmy clients to deliver a massive “fuck you” to Reddit. They collectively have a large install base. Instead of a warning banner saying, “This app will cease functioning on July 1 (or whatever the date is),” they could add, “Check out our new community over on Lemmy [with a link to whichever Lemmy client].” If I were a Reddit app dev, I would 100% be incorporating this threat into my talks with their team about the forthcoming reddit API.
If you’re viewing this post from the Lemmy webpage (lemmygrad.ml, in your case), you can click on the rainbow-colored Fediverse icon to see how it looks like from their end.
I see entire threads that are populated by replies from Mastodon (and similar services) users. As someone who has been using Lemmy before federation it is nice to see.
@dessalines An an avid Apollo user, this is really bad news. But if it pushes some of its users towards the Fediverse, then it’s not a total loss.
@dessalines Wow, my reply using a Mastodon web client ( https://elk.zone/ ) actually gets picked up by the Lemmy server!
If Apollo were to be rewritten as a Lemmy / ActivityPub client, it could inter-operate with all those new Mastodon clients too…
That would be something - all of the major reddit clients pivot to bring Lemmy or other fediverse clients.
What a fantastic idea. They don’t even have to necessarily pivot their apps to actually be Lemmy clients to deliver a massive “fuck you” to Reddit. They collectively have a large install base. Instead of a warning banner saying, “This app will cease functioning on July 1 (or whatever the date is),” they could add, “Check out our new community over on Lemmy [with a link to whichever Lemmy client].” If I were a Reddit app dev, I would 100% be incorporating this threat into my talks with their team about the forthcoming reddit API.
so for you, are you just seeing posts from this community as it’s own user?
@ImOnADiet Yes. I was able to search and find @opensource as a “user” in my Mastodon clients.
that’s pretty neat actually
If you’re viewing this post from the Lemmy webpage (lemmygrad.ml, in your case), you can click on the rainbow-colored Fediverse icon to see how it looks like from their end.
Ah cool, thanks for letting me know!
I see entire threads that are populated by replies from Mastodon (and similar services) users. As someone who has been using Lemmy before federation it is nice to see.