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Based on this https://reddthat.com/post/8711097 I don’t think he has any interest in Lemmy

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Thanks for the link. I didn’t think he’s in the least interested in Lemmy. Unsure why he’s upset that someone else took the ball that he wasn’t interested in and ran with it.

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Think about it. If you’d given so much of yourself over to crafting and honing an app like Apollo over the years and all that happened, happened… would you not be a tad deflated and exasperated?

I don’t blame him. Let him cool off for about 5 years. He’ll see it as a tribute one day.

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You’re right on all counts. It really is a tribute to Apollo’s design, and I hope he sees it that way someday.

While I’d be exasperated, I’d like to think that I’d also be mature enough to realize that Voyager simply does what I didn’t want to do. I’d like to think that I wouldn’t be pissy about it. I might be wrong, but I’d like to think it.

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100% this

He was also the voice of the fight against the API changes, which I’m sure took a toll too. His reputation was dragged through the mud and wild accusations thrown his way. He probably wants nothing to do with app dev, let alone app dev for a Reddit clone.

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See here

Also this comment.

I don’t think he is planning on making a big deal out of it or anything, but he does clearly not really like it.

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Because there’s a stark difference between “playing ball” as it were, and essentially trying to make an identical ball without permission.

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the old ball was taken away, a jab is fair, but so was keeping the ball alive.

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A ball is a ball. The idea to make a spherical object cannot be copyrighted. Unless the Voyager dev somehow copied Apollo’s source code, there’s not a bloody thing that Christian can do except grumble and snark.

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