He said he’s not interested in building a new Apollo-like app in an interview with The Verge.
It’s hard for me to build another thing. If it just evaporated again, it would be like a double breakup. This has been so exhausting for the last few months. The amount of work it would take to port all the API endpoints over to Lemmy or Kbin or something, that would be a gargantuan amount of work that I’m not sure I have the capacity for. Source
Would have been helpful if Lemmy had been advertised very strongly from Apollo near the end to get people moving across here. Feels like a missed opportunity.
I have mentioned it before and got no answer on the Apollo Reddit board
Someone did tell me that he thinks Lemmy is too new and would like to see where it goes as a platform. That’s here-say though
keeping the hope alive
The things is… having Christian sign on and port Apollo over would be a pretty good way to ensure Lemmy’s survival.
While I agree I think he needs time to mourn the loss of his nine year old project. Just my 2 cents
He needs to seriously consider his next professional move. His entire lifeline was kicked out from under him.
Lemmy is too small for him to reasonably capitalize on. So I’m not surprised he is in a wait-and-see mode on that one.
While lemmy may grow, I can’t see a way for him to make money from it.
Same way he made money from Apollo. User signups and ads. Would require a lot of growing though…
Why use a client that costs money though
