I usually don’t get too salty about these things, but that seemed uncalled for, especially since I’m on their side.

  • robcee@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    well, I saw your comment and made it here, so at least one happy customer was served.

    Kind of short-sighted by Christian to do this. He could put up an instance, make an Apollo update (not trivial) and migrate a bunch of users onto Lemmy. Getting a decent percentage of Apollo users over here would be good for a producer of a popular app based client. I’d wager operating his own instance would end up being cheaper than Reddit’s API fees. He could even benefit from donations to keep his servers running.

    Everybody wins in this hypothetical, magical, free business idea.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Sweet, glad to have you.

      I don’t mind the ban too much as I don’t use reddit often, but it’s probably indicative that the developer plans to stay with reddit. Our door is always open to him if he changes his mind tho.

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
    1·
    1 year ago

    Banning someone for “self promoting” an open source, decentralised, democratised alternative? What a weird hill for them to die on.

  • jonah@lemmy.one
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hmm… That does not bode well for my hopes that Apollo would support Lemmy in the future. It could have been one of his mods and not the dev himself, though.

    • pitninja@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Maybe the difference is the fact that Dessalines is directly involved in the Lemmy project. Maybe that makes it self promotion in the Apollo dev’s eyes? 🤷

      • marco@beehaw.org
        11·
        1 year ago

        That would be a little like the staff on the sinking Titanic reminding passengers not to mention other cruise lines :p

        • Dessalines@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Self-promotion rules are really weird for open-source projects too. Its like we’re telling people about a pizza recipe that we created and are sharing freely… we’re not selling anything or trying to profit off people.

  • skepticalifornia@beehaw.org
    0·
    1 year ago

    Maybe a stupid question from a Newb here such as myself, but are there currently any good 3rd party clients for Android and iOS that support Lemmy? I’ve been looking around here using the browser and this platform has promise, but being able to use clients like Apollo, Sync for Reddit, etc, would really make it more useful in my opinion.