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Why did reddit not buy apollo? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Ruby_Hoshino@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Apollo was already a nice app so why didn't reddit just buy apollo and integrate ads into it and just keep the features that made everyone happy.

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[–] LostCause@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Spez is running a kingdom and sometimes the king goes mad and does dumb shit to establish authority. This episode felt like that, especially with how they talked down to the dev about it being unoptimised or some crap.