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Cake day: June 28th, 2023
  • 70ms@lemmy.sdf.orgtoApple@lemmy.world•[Self Promo] My Lemmy client, Bean is now available on TestFlightEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wow, this looks beautiful! Love the selection of icons, too. It already feels great and I can tell this is gonna be stellar. Just being able to pin communities is something I really missed from Apollo/reddit so it’s rad that you’ve already got it in there! 🙌

    Edit: Any chance we can get rotation when viewing images so we can view them in landscape? As an older lady my close vision is going and I often need to go landscape to see/read things better. :)

  • 70ms@lemmy.sdf.orgtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Dozens of cats in Poland had bird flu but the risk to people is low, UN health agency saysEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been following H5N1 pretty closely for several months and one of the first things I did on Lemmy was set up a community to post news stories to. !h5n1_avianflu@lemmy.sdf.org

    5 more of the deceased cats in Poland were confirmed today to have died of H5N1 for a total of 34 now. There was a report that one of the owners provided a sample of raw chicken that had been fed to the cats, and it tested positive for H5N1. This was almost immediately followed up by a very defensive press conference with the Polish government insisting it wasn’t true; Poland supplies about 20% of the European market for chicken. Make of that what you will.

    That none of the owners got sick is great news, but no one should be breathing easy about what’s happening globally. :|

  • 70ms@lemmy.sdf.orgtoReddit@lemmy.world•Looks like Apollo is officially gone, such injustice and so heartbreaking :(English
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    1 year ago

    Christian closed the sub for a while until everyone’s emotions settle down. The sub will be back at some point, even if the app isn’t. :)

    ETA his post about it in case you can’t see it:

    Hey all,

    Almost a week since Apollo closed and it’s been such a weird adjustment, I really miss coming here and talking to you folks about feedback and cool ideas for Apollo going forward, and scribbling down ideas on how I could make them happen. I thought Friday would mean things would calm down, and they have a fair bit, but it was surprising and nice to get almost a second wave of really nice comments from people saying how much Apollo meant to them over the years.

    (I started on app development because the thought of being able to jump on the bus and one day hopefully see someone using something I built felt like the coolest thing imaginable, and the idea that so many people used and loved Apollo really really makes me smile.)

    I’m not really looking to come onto Reddit at the moment, and a few friends have indicated the subreddit at times can skew a bit over the top with anger about Reddit’s actions at times. Trust me, I totally get the frustration, but we’ve had a “no dumping on other apps” rule in this subreddit forever for a reason: we want to be nice people, and in the case where others are maybe disappointing us, be the bigger people.

    That being said, I don’t really want to have to keep a keen eye over this subreddit, nor do I expect the other moderators here to, so I think for the time being – until maybe emotions settle a bit more and this place can turn into a nice flowering meadow of memes and reminiscing – I’m going to set the subreddit to restricted so no further posts can be made, you can still talk in existing posts or here if you so please. Heck, tell me something fun you’ve done over the past week, or give me a game recommendation to play (I should be finishing ToTK soon).

    (Hopefully this is the one subreddit Reddit is okay with the moderators changing things, at least for a bit. :p)

    Anyway, that’s it from me. If you want to hear more of my musings or keep in touch outside of Reddit, I’m on Mastodon, and Twitter. Per request, I also added a bunch more designs to Apollo’s merch store, and the promo code “RIPAPOLLO” will still work for a few more days.

    - Christian