I am a developer, but I don't need to review the code of Apollo as I am a user if this software too. And in my opinion it is a very good app much better than Reddit oficial app in functionalities and performance. I hope Christian migrates the app to be compatible with Lemmy 🤞
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Fuck Reddit
Ultimately fuck capitalism, its capitalisms market forces that drive this behaviour.
you can't blame every personal comportement to capitalism. it's to easy.
edit: so you'll downvote instead of argue. no wonder why blaming is your way to go.
It is the core reason why things are so dysfunctional however. Not that I have another system to recommend.
But this thing with the Reddit API is, uh, directly related to capitalism? This isn't grasping at straws, it's literally capitalists doing a capitalism.
Like, they're going "give us a bunch of money, or we're going to restrict your access to this, because it's our private property". At it's core, that... That's what capitalism is.
I don't want to appear more pedantic than I am, but in my book capitalism is all about how to generate and accumulate money from propriety. so it would have been a better move to milk third party app, than to kill them with unrealistic price. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
undefined> But this thing with the Reddit API is, uh, directly related to capitalism?
No, it's directly related to management making a terrible and short-sighted decision. Capitalism is a concept, it's not a person taking action based on a decision. Maybe that decision is, in turn, based on capitalistic ideas, but then the policy isn't directly related to capitalism and is instead an indirect consequence.
Here, its born of bad problem solving, terrible communication, and inept strategy. Not an intrinsic problem with capitalism.
They've been loosing money for 20 years, now they want the IPO so they need to show that they can also make money.
If they're losing so much money then why do they have 2000 employees?
I don’t blame capitalism for everything (though it is to blame for a surprising amount of stuff) but a private business doing things to optimise it’s bottom line is like capitalism: the basics.
I don't like the idea to blame a system instead of the people directly responsible for this decision at Reddit. it's like they are victim of it of capitalism and couldn't make another decision.
even under capitalism, Reddit could have found another solution. they could have milked third party app by bringing a slightly unfair price. blaming capitalism is too easy and in my book, often used by individuals to distance themself from their own responsibility. like the classic "they are no ethical consumption user capitalism, thus I can consume whatever I want it's not my fault it's the system. bad system, bad."
Christian decided to start dropping receipts before discontinuing the app
That app is closed-source? No wonder I never heard of it. Why do folks subject themselves to closed-source software when there's open-source software available?
Open source apps are rare on iOS. But this is not even the app, it’s the backend server. There is literally only one instance. It’s as closed source as most websites.
In particular, you need to register with Apple for a developer license to even side-load apps onto the phone. So the only way an open source app can exist on the iPhone is if every end user pays Apple $99 dollars (Has this gone up? It has been >10 years since I even touched iOS dev).
IIRC Apple graciously allows you to sideload apps for free now, they just expire after a week or so making it so you have to constantly reinstall/resign them.
He didn't have to do it, no-one except reddit claimed that, because the suits running reddit don't use the site