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Christian would have an opportunity to use much of the Apollo code and start over as a lemmy client. It’s too bad the sting is so fresh in his mind. He has built a reputation of a great app and would easily be able to start a small purchase charge for the app and then add features behind a small paywall.
I think that would be great! I’m sure it’s more difficult than it seems, though, to port over the entire backend to Lemmy, especially with its decentralized nature. Also I’m sure Christian is a bit burnt out after the Reddit fiasco, so I can’t fault him for taking a breather.
Definitely easier said than done. I’m in the process of building an app for Lemmy and I’ve made a reddit app in the past and I can confirm the whole backend would need to be reworked along with most of the front end logic. I would love to have Apollo back, but since it doesn’t appear to be happening I’m building my own version. I don’t want to directly ripoff Apollo, but it does so many things so well that it’s beginning to feel more and more like a clone. If you’d like to be a part of it I created a community (c/lemmyapp) where you can find the TestFlight link and provide feedback in the form of bug reports and feature requests. It’s still in Alpha testing so there are a lot of bugs but if you’ve got some features that you’d like to see in a mobile app that aren’t available in others there’s a good chance I’ll add them in. For the stable release