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• ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It highkey kinda sucks tho, being implicitly all like “I I can’thave Apollo do Reddit than nobody can have it!”. Its really childish and selfish in the way it fucks over almthe people who grew dependant on it for their Reddit-type social fix app

  Maybe I’ve missed something but as far as I’m aware he hasn’t done anything to try and stop Voyager; he just didn’t give it a seal of approval.

  As a practical matter, I wouldn’t invest any time or money into the guy’s projects anymore not because he doesn’t do amazing UI/UX/App work, but because he is not someone is seems to plan long-term or is advised by anyone who could have told him this would be a problem legally or administratively etc.

  I think he absolutely does plan ahead. The fact that he was able to absorb the expense of all the refunds he was forced to issue for subscriptions that extended beyond his ability to access the API speaks directly to that.

  Not to mention his foresight in being able to bring receipts when Spez and the other Reddit admins attempted to smear him in the press.

  I think you feel more strongly about it than I do, so I’m not trying to change your mind or anything. I’m just adding my perspective.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All fair points, i just felt it was shitty for him to act like nobody or fans shouldn’t recreate what he got us all hooked on and that he had some sort of expectation of commerical purity that we were violating by not letting Apollo die the way he dictated

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