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Title: Apollo For Reddit Dev Christian Selig To Join Digg As an Advisor

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/21/2010...

Christian Selig, developer of the popular third-party Reddit app Apollo, is
joining the rebooted Digg as an advisor alongside Digg founder Kevin Rose and
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. TechCrunch reports: Earlier this year,
Digg's original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
acquired what was left of Digg in an attempt to revitalize what was formerly
known as "the internet's homepage." Rose and Ohanian were already a
fascinating pairing -- the two had previously seen each other as rivals,
since Digg and Reddit were fierce competitors. By adding Selig to the mix,
Rose and Ohanian are further signaling that the new Digg wants to shake
things up. Selig played a prominent role in the backlash against Reddit's
increased API pricing in 2023, which made free apps like Apollo -- which
offered an enhanced browsing experience for Reddit users -- impossible to
run. In a Reddit post that went viral, Selig told users that in order to keep
Apollo running as-is under the new API pricing, he would need to pay about
$1.7 million per month. Needless to say, Apollo shut down, much to the Reddit
community's disappointment. "We're excited to have Selig bring that same
craft and community-first thinking to Digg, helping us build something that
feels good to use and even better to be a part of," said Digg CEO Justin
Mezzell in a statement.

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