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Apollo saved my Reddit usage years ago. It has too many nice to have features to list. I suppose off to Discord I go. Most subreddits have a discord parallel. More than ever it feels like all of the major platforms are ripe for disruption. They are filled with aggressive hostile ads, algorithms set to engagement, and closed experiences.

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Just seems like that network effect is too powerful. Look at all the attempts to create a new Twitter (or Reddit for that matter) over the past couple years.

I suspect that these efforts keep failing in part because people never needed Twitter and Reddit in the first place. Leaving one social network doesn't imply that a person will join another. I didn't open accounts on similar platforms after leaving Reddit, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter over the years.

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