@christianselig hahaha the PodCat! #notg

@christianselig Bernard would like to join as a guest

@christianselig Not gonna lie - I'd totally listen to it!

@christianselig Juno looks great, but unfortunately I don’t have the full $3,604 to spare. I do, however, have $5 I’d be eager to part with if you were ever to make a version for iOS.

An amazing independent client for YouTube is needed for all the same reasons that Apollo was needed for Reddit. The current crop of them is pretty awful.

Congrats on having a great looking app on launch day!

@christianselig you’re a true gem! An iOS sized, gem.

@christianselig Thank you, kind sir.

@christianselig At first I didn't realize this was a video, then clicked and it gets even better. It's a 3D printer for you, a thousand finger massage unit for your cat. :)

@christianselig if not for sit why made of warm?

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All the cats I've known well (20+) have liked lying on top of washing machines during the spin cycle (even during cool 30℃ washes).

This machine looked pretty vibratey in a similar way. You may draw your own conclusions. :)

@christianselig B looks more like a puppy to me.

@christianselig I voted B originally as I “like” it more, but on reflection A reads more as a Tiger than just a cat. So now I’m conflicted.

@christianselig B, because it's a cub and because the tail is important:)

@christianselig best thing ever

@christianselig You sure?

@christianselig does she need help putting on her headphones?

@christianselig god damn

@christianselig glad we don’t get to have that, would have been horrible. Lucky Reddit saved us 😭

@christianselig loved and miss Apollo Christian. Not tempted to build a Lemmy app?

@christianselig Oh, man, gotta get on my downloading game!

@christianselig no chance at getting a “diving for upvotes” themed wallpaper, eh? That was my favourite icon. Not sure if you’re adding any more in the future but that would be a cool one to add! The ones you’ve already got are incredible already

@christianselig These are great! Thank you for putting this together. I can’t really speak for any community, but I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that you did some amazing things with Apollo. You deserve to be proud for all of it. I’m looking forward to all the things you do in the future.

@christianselig this sucks i keep opening it and hoping the widget updates the art but nothing :/ Hoping you will be back with the most fire app for mastodon as a blanket replacement for twitter and reddit

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@christianselig absolutely gutting. Best of luck for whatever you do next

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Astonishing that _anyone_ thinks Musk's work at Twitter has been positive in any way. Even financially -- is that awful platform really going to start earning back the -- what -- $22bn he's lost on it so far?

Link to the article if anyone wants it: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

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Learning from some one else's mistake? Unpossible!!

@christianselig @DataDrivenMD
These CEO’s think people are idiots, which makes them idiots.

If you want to talk deals, it’s either
a) I give freely into the public domain and expect everything to be in the public domain.
b) You pay people who add value and we all have a commercial relationship.

In some ways I’m pleased this control is exposed, but it didn’t have to be this way.

No one is asking Reddit for the moon and the stars, just to listen to small changes.

Even Twitch, which made horrendous moves this month, recognized that the community is what gives their company any value at all, and responded in some capacity to make their users feel heard.

@christianselig They wont listen probably.

@christianselig I'm hoping they change course but I'm going to delete the apollo icon from my homescreen just in case. Wouldn't want to accidentally visit the site.

Best of luck 🤞

@christianselig here's hoping it will drive some change.

@christianselig This whole thing is just sad and depressing... I really hope for a small miracle. But thank you for your great work!

@christianselig Thank you for a great app. On the plus side: I’m already excited for what you do next.

I’ve had a lot of questions about Reddit’s planned AMA today and “What if they…”, so I added a section to the bottom of my post to answer that and thought I’d share it here too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

@christianselig what

@christianselig awesome!

@christianselig 🖐️

@christianselig @Gargron

@christianselig This is fucking unbelievable.

@christianselig Sounds like they are trying to kill off 3rd party apps in order to have full control over their users exclusively via their own app. That sucks. I don't use Apple anymore but when I did I used Apollo and it's a top quality Reddit client. Hope you're able to develop another app/income stream.

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@christianselig I had something like that:
“Hey Siri, turn on the lights in the living room”
“Okay, some of the lights didn’t respond, you can ask me which ones”
“Which ones?”
“Here’s what I found on the internet for ‘which ones’”

😐

@christianselig 🤦🏻‍♂️