At a similar time as The Verge was threatened I noticed some articles changed their tune and switched to downplaying the Reddit situation. The one I recall is Gizmodo reporting that Reddit traffic was back to normal.

It'll be interesting to see how things play out at the end of this week when the 3rd Party Apps go offline, but to be honest I'm happy to say my new home is Kbin.social and don't see the need for an active Reddit account, though I may lurk from time to time if I'm looking for some particular information that's not yet on Kbin.

The game changer for Fediverse is stable mobile applications, once the Apollo shaped hole on my phone is filled I think it'll be pretty much a drop-in replacement.

Nope, no need for open-source. If it was so easy to make an iOS app we'd have one available on the App Store already. There's works in progress and TestFlight releases just to cater for the increasing demand but even those will take time to reach full maturity and polish.

There's no reason for someone to work so hard and give away their IP for free. From what you see from many apps, the authors are continuously working hard to work on it, adding new features, fixing bugs and with it being still the relatively early days of the Fediverse, keeping up and reflecting changes on the platform.

App developers should be free to decide how they protect their IP and how they market their product. I gladly paid for Apollo and would be more than happy to pay for my preferred Fedi app to support the effort behind it.

A better approach would be for the Kbin/Lemmy project to open-source an SDK for iOS

@deengames you're right, but I'm just interested in when this could be useful.

I guess you can choose to fight more Elites and difficult events to make the game more challenging and rewarding.

Similarly, you could make the game easier with path selection not mattering anymore. I can see you could use it a lot on Act 1 especially if you're not getting the rewards you want and then from Act 2 you could use it to take on more Elites to build a stronger deck.

I'll see if I can add a list of game mods to the sidebar and get you added on there

@deengames

When would you recommend using this? It looks cool but on a normal run I avoid Rocket Bootsm and even when I have them I'll try to avoid using them.