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Christian SeligAs the subreddit blackout begins, I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to the Reddit community and everyone standing up ❤️ Let's hope Reddit listens. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/147a8xb/as_the_subreddit_blackout_begins_i_wanted_to_say/
Brett Elliff
Dylan Sallee
Tim Moule
Jerry Gonzalez 
@christianselig Reddit won’t listen, not if they know these blackouts are temporary. The blackouts should have been indefinite to start with.
Elaine (they/she) 💜🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Jeff Heinzelman@socialjeffwarrior
Then the question becomes will members of the community stay or move on to other platforms.
@christianselig @JerryGonzalez
Then the question becomes will members of the community stay or move on to other platforms.
@christianselig @JerryGonzalez
@socialjeffwarrior @elaine @christianselig @JerryGonzalez the need to show investors that they are in control. Expect them to ask all the moderators to sign NDAs.
Thero Rando@JerryGonzalez @christianselig
Excluding some small sized subs most of the blackouts are indefinite
embix@JerryGonzalez @christianselig for several subs they already are
You Got The Cat Blushing@JerryGonzalez @christianselig they'll probably just replace the moderators
ellzumem@The_Merciless_Potato @JerryGonzalez @christianselig They will not replace mods. Reddit’s moderators as of now – unlike on every other of the big “social network” sites btw – are entirely unpaid. They literally can’t afford to kick out even a few dozen modteams, let alone hundreds… and everyone knows it.
Felis Cat@lm1 they absolutely could replace them. There's an endless line of people willing to step up behind the current mods to do the job.
Most of them would hate it and quit quickly, do the job terribly, or willingly sabotage the sub, but they could absolutely do it and lower the overall quality of their content.
The question is if lowering the quality of reddit content is a problem for them or not.
William Gunn@Sternness3985 @lm1 If they have a definition of content quality, it's based on engagement, not what you or I think of as quality. It's "highly upvoted, commented on, etc" and not "what I would want more of if I had a better understanding of what my values are". They don't think they can or should do anything about the latter. They're wrong, IMHO, but that is how they think. The only thing that will move #reddit's owners is a movement in engagement numbers.
@lm1 @JerryGonzalez @christianselig There are hundreds of people willing to be mods. The admins can easily replace the entire moderating community on Reddit with moderators of their own since all the top 100 subs are moderated by the same group of people so it takes less moderators to moderate those subreddits than you think.
Eshu Marneedi
Anirban@christianselig They wont listen probably.
Nate Heagy@christianselig I'm hoping they change course but I'm going to delete the apollo icon from my homescreen just in case. Wouldn't want to accidentally visit the site.
Best of luck 🤞
Shaunkoh@nheagy @christianselig did the exact same thing
A Human Being@nheagy @christianselig Same, the icon and the widget.
@nheagy @christianselig I just logged out of all my accounts. I think keeping the Apollo icon on my Home Screen serves 1) as a reminder of Reddit’s shitty behavior and 2) as a tribute to Christian’s work on this awesome app.
Side note: I’m really enjoying #IceCubesApp for Mastodon
stonedonkey 🕹️🎮👾@christianselig here's hoping it will drive some change.
Josh Combs
Hoos@christianselig Thank you for a great app. Your time and talent is really appreciated.
MishaMouse 
@christianselig thanks for everything you’ve done for the reddit community! o7
† ponyo † (bleelblep)@christianselig reddit doesn’t deserve all the work you put into their platform.
Dan Ambrogio@christianselig Any plans to build an Activitypub app? I know a lot of people would love to have an interface to the fediverse with the great UX of Apollo.
MentallyExhausted@atypicaloddity @christianselig I want him to do this so badly, there’s so much potential here. If he spun up his own instance he could make account creation easy for new users. Multi******s would help solve community fragmentation and discovery across instances. What the #threadiverse needs most is a capable client. #apollo #reddit
Benny B@christianselig I’ll miss Apollo dearly, but I can’t wait to see what you do next. Hoping you’re thinking about the fediverse for your next endeavour. ✌️❤️
Adam B@christianselig you are truly a class act. It sucks you have to deal with all this.
Jonah 🏳️⚧️@christianselig Thank you for everything, Christian! Just deleted my Reddit accounts; it’s been fun. (Because of you.)
@jsonarray
bachya
Kendall Seabury@christianselig is it too early to ask what your next step is? I wish you luck!
Nic Hagan@christianselig Thanks for the amazing app and community. Apollo single handedly made me switch from a lurker to a full user. I even had to put screen time limits on the app due to overuse!
@nichagan If only I didn’t just blow past those limits every chance I got! Hopefully this “place” will be a bit healthier for me.
@discodoubloon Haha, I did the same.
@christianselig already moved here. When’s your new Mastodon app coming?😀
@KingofE0ra @christianselig I'd rather take a kbin/lemmy app tbh
aroom@brezelradar @KingofE0ra @christianselig kbin would be nice indeed. Lemmy got some going on already.
Brandon@christianselig For the last decade Twitter and Reddit were my 1 & 2 most visited sites.
Didn't want to support Twitter when it got ugly and now Reddit is heading the same direction. The muscle memory is hard to overcome.
ash@christianselig As a long time beta user, Thank you Christian. Apollo was THE STANDARD for iOS Design. Incredible work and look forward to what else you have up your sleeve.
Elias Mårtenson@christianselig there was a few communities tgat I regularly checked out (hydrohomies, mountainbiking, linkedlunatics, eldenring) but I haven't touched reddit since all of this started.
At this point I don't think I'll ever visit again unless they fire their CEO and do a pi. And even then I'll be wary.
Jason Cox@christianselig you have my sword… and my two subs!
furina 💧⚖️
Taylor@christianselig thanks for all that you did for Reddit Christian. Apollo was my most used app for years ❤️
To the fediverse and beyond!
Artemis 'Arty' W.@christianselig You absolutely have the support of myself and r/lfg. Reddit may not listen, but we care!
Young Mastodon@christianselig going to miss Reddit. Thank you for your service!
Victor Song@christianselig I’ve really appreciated your app these past few years. You’re honestly such a talented developer and I wish you all the best. Thanks for everything!
Sid 
@christianselig Thanks for all your hard work.
Bobby Johns@christianselig just set up screen time to limit my ability to not accidentally get on. Let’s see if we can send a message.
RIP to the best iPhone app out there
even if reddit were to somehow reverse course I will never go back there after how they acted
this whole fiasco has led me to discover Mastodon and the wider fediverse, so I've been able to find new communities to interact with and it is quite refreshing to be honest
Robby Barnes 
@christianselig so sorry you have to deal with all of this. I want to echo what many have already told you and thank you for such a fantastic app. It completely changed how I used reddit and I know I’m not alone in saying I honestly just won’t use it any more after this. Really great work and I appreciate the care and effort you put in to it
Drea@christianselig I was legit teary-eyed tonight when I deleted Apollo. I was one of the early beta testers and Apollo is one of my favorite apps. It’s an awesome app largely because you are one of the nicest, most patient people I’ve ever observed online. Online isn’t always a nice place but you always kept the discourse positive, rising above any negativity. Current situation included. I really admire how you’ve handled everything.
@christianselig My dude, thank YOU for all you’ve done for the reddit community. Reddit would be basically unusable on iOS without you and other developers.
Caleb@christianselig I can’t imagine an amenable resolution that doesn’t involve finding a replacement CEO at this point.
Colin Humber@christianselig We all stand with you and everyone in your position