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

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[–] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He has a mastodon, can you tag him here through that? Might be easier to get his attention that way vs. through reddit @dessalines@lemmy.ml

[–] robcee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.ml 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] jonah@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] marco@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] pitninja@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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.

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