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Christian squeezing Apollo for its last bit of money (old.reddit.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Christian has decided to squeeze Apollo again for more money, besides the wallpapers and asking people to decline their prorated refund. Christian additionally forced a pop up ad advertising this plushie.

This is just exposing to more people the greediness that Christian has tapped into recently. Recall that previously, Christian forced daily pop up ads to paid pro users to get them to subscribe to ultra, which was originally stated to only be for notifications since it required a server, but now had all new features attached to it, even very simple local features. Reddit did him dirty, but to be honest, he may have had it coming. He previously disabled ultra access to Jailbroken devices as well, even if they were valid paid users. Christian also didn’t provide refunds to lifetime users who bought it before all the API stuff. Speaking of that, does anyone remember how instead of stating the price was increasing (which happened all the time) he instead said it was “going on sale at the old price”? Kinda misleading.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Many sell merch. For example, I play an idle game called Melvor Idle that routinely sells plushies of in game pets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That’s a game, not a (defunct) social media app

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You asked “what other app sells plushies of its logo?”

Melvor Idle has featured those pets in its logos and and meets your question. Your only response to that was to double down and drag those goalposts further down the field by changing the criteria.

I get that you’re super butthurt over this, but maybe you need to step back, take a breath, get some perspective and figure out why others actions that have no impact on your life bother you so much. How does this change your life? How would your life be different if this happened without your knowledge or never happened?

I bet your life wouldn’t be significantly different other than the amount of energy you’re exerting letting this anger you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No “goalposts” were moved. I was perhaps not specific enough when I said app, which is why I clarified more.

There’s no reason to be passive aggressive about this. You make it sound like I dedicate my life to this, when all I did was make one post here, and outlined some of my concerns with some of the developers behavior.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Asking for an example, then “clarifying” so that the criteria changes in order that the example — which answers the prior questions but now — doesn’t meet the later change is literally “shifting the goalposts”. You might look up the definition.

And your multiple replies to comments to different people that disagree all over this post are a bit more than making “one post”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This “criteria” was my original intent all along. English is not my first language so maybe i was not so clear. And is it really so wrong to reply to people that come up in my inbox?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I get that you’re super butthurt over this, but maybe you need to step back, take a breath, get some perspective and figure out why others actions that have no impact on your life bother you so much.

Honestly, Lemmy users can get antsy over the weirdest shit. Not a fan of that being carried over from Reddit/Twitter to the fediverse.

This post was crossposted to the Reddit community on one of the major instances, to which it was downvoted a lot. Reddthat doesn't allow downvotes, but the major Lemmy instances and the one I'm on do. Between that and TeckFire's top comment (though Reddthat doesn't federate downvotes, it's got more upvotes than the OP), I think it's safe to say the majority of people disagree with OP.