Make it seamless for people to migrate. Duplicate comments/posts/vote API calls to Lemmy. Then they could just drop the Reddit side whenever they want, and users wouldn’t have to do any work. Most wouldn’t even notice the change.
Of course they’d have to keep the app up in the meantime, but I’d donate to that fund.
Christian already commented on this. He said it’s a lot more work than it might seem, and he’s not interested in maintaining that. And I don’t blame him, the poor dude needs a break from technology for a while.
In the Android world, the Sync for Reddit developer expressed some subtle interest in Lemmy, but has not committed to anything one way or the other.
I think the big push to converting Reddit apps to Lemmy apps won’t happen until July. We’ll have to see.
I wonder if he’s yet aware of this: https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy
Tafkars is nowhere near ready yet. It barely support read-only viewing at the moment.
There are some pretty annoying problems to beat (notably the way pagination works, which Reddit does a lot better than Lemmy in my opinion). The Lemmy API also doesn’t provide certain details the Reddit API supports (i.e. media size) and API documentation in general is quite scarce.
It would probably be easier to rip out the Reddit API entirely and build a different client for Lemmy than to jump through the conversion hoops.
Apollo is literally just one dude. He should do whatever he wants. He had a good run, almost certainly made a life-changing amount of money and is ready to move on. I can totally respect that.
I also think anyone who says <app> should “just” <thing> probably has never written anything as complex and popular as Apollo before. There really is no “just” anything at that scale.
Certainly it’s not simple, and I can just imagine if my CTO asked for this, I would hope it was a joke. However, compared to the effort of all the coordination and time spent protesting…
Christian Can do whatever he wants, he did a good thing by being political enough to spread awareness. I wouldn’t ask more. There’s always incongruencies when doing a migration, but adding a second model for each Reddit primitive is a short list. we don’t need to mirror sidebars or messaging, just posts, comments, votes.
Maybe Apollo should open source.
The easy way is to just put whatever Lemmy instance they prefer in a webview, but I guess that would stick out like a sore thumb on iOS and wouldn’t offer the experience users are used to. Probably be better to just call it a day, take a long holiday and maybe start a new project later (or just get a regular 9-5 job). Apollo has been part of his life for about a decade, I wouldn’t fault him for just moving on.
Say I made a post to some specific subreddit from apollo. How does the app decide which lemmy community to use, on which instance? Or if I voted or made a comment, on which post on which community on which instance should it land?
I don’t think this is a serviceable idea.
Right, the services are different enough in implementation that any sort of “seamless” thing would be a huge lift.
Better to just have a new app (Artemis, Apollo’s twin?) integrate with Lemmy/Fediverse stuff with the same “feel” as the original.
Exactly. If you think about it more, you realize this is a terrible idea.
I mean, we all had to log into the reddit apps in the first place anyways, so I don’t see why we can’t just do that again instead of trying to guess instances or something
Definitely, but they should allow people to choose their instance naturally. We don’t want every user to end up in lemmy.world (or any other instance for that matter), decentralization is key, otherwise, at some point, it will end up exactly like reddit.
These apps seem pretty similar (although new and barebones): memmy https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
Using Mlem currently, think it has a ton of potential! Though I will say it crashed as I tried to reply the first time lol. Has a lot of crashing issues, but if they can get it stable and make steady improvements it’s got excellent potential.
Memmy is also good. It lets you swipe to upvote like Apollo!
I don’t think that’s feasible, how would it handle choosing communities or pinging users?
I’m using Mlem as well. I’m interested in trying any apps to see what is out there. Right now this has a really nice feel about it. Definitely enough to get me started and more useful than the web app on my iPhone.
