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Keeping Apollo Alive — Apollo for Lemmy (reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bojaber@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Andreas@feddit.dk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

From his pinned post on /r/ApolloApp

Will you build a competitor? Move to one of the existing alternatives?

I've received so many messages of kind people offering to work with me to build a competitor to Reddit, and while I'm very flattered, that's not something I'm interested in doing. I'm a product guy, I like building fun apps for people to use, and I'm just not personally interested in something more managerial.

These last several months have also been incredibly exhausting and mentally draining, I don't have it in me to engage in something so enormous.

I don't think he will. He'll probably avoid investing effort into apps that are reliant on a third-party service now after how he was treated by Reddit.

[–] wslagoon@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I've definitely been in that position where you put your heart and soul in to a project, and then it gets ripped away from you by forces beyond your control. It sucks, and it can really kill your joy for that kind of thing. I doubt he's going to want to get involved in another social network, and it sounds like he already has a new project he's excited about.

[–] wagesof@links.wageoffsite.com 2 points 1 year ago

He could easily make an Apollo focused lemmy instance and be free of external influence.