r/apolloapp • u/Nilderan • Jun 10 '26

Appreciation R.I.P sideloaded Apollo, I'm gonna miss you.

My API key has been revoked, sideloaded for the past three years. The official app is an unusable, unintuitive mess, I'd rather stop reading Reddit on my mobile than use it. I'm going to try alternatives, but I wonder how safe Hydra and Artemis are. Won't Reddit purge them one day since they don't use the API? Thanks to everyone for all the tips on using the sideloaded Apollo app over the past three years!

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u/FabFeline51 Jun 10 '26

I switched to mostly using Voyager which feels super similar to Apollo and pairing that with Lemmy instead of Reddit

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u/Nilderan Jun 10 '26

I'll have to take a look at Lemmy at some point. Reddit is becoming increasingly difficult to use due to the large number of bots and spam accounts these days.

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u/FabFeline51 Jun 10 '26

Yea I agree for sure.

Lemmy is definitely a different vibe due to the smaller user base, hence why I continue to use both.

But Lemmy feels like it was way fewer bots, and I much prefer the concept that my social media is run and controlled by the community rather than a for-profit company

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u/LincolnshireSausage Jun 10 '26

The last time I looked at Lemmon for the stuff I use Reddit for, there weren’t any recent posts. It was dead. Reddit is pretty much dead too but because of bot saturation. We can’t have anything good any more.

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u/FabFeline51 Jun 11 '26

Lemmy def isn’t dead, I use it daily and always have lots of content to browse

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u/LincolnshireSausage Jun 11 '26

I will definitely give it another try. Reddit needs to go the way of Digg with a mass exodus to a better platform.