I’ve seen the app Apollo as the center of the reddit protest (it was mentioned and cited more than any other app in relevant posts). I’ve also seen many Lemmy clients in development taking inspiration from it.
As a lifetime Android user I’ve never been able to use it, and I’ve never gotten a proper answer to “why not just use the official app?” What made it different from the official application and other unofficial clients that consequently made it so popular among Redditors?
I think it all boils down to the state of the official reddit app.
I switched to iPhone from Android (regrettably) not long ago, and Apollo honestly wasn’t really better than other third party Android apps I had before, I even liked it less.
I used the official reddit app for years until I tried third party apps and found them better, and when I switched to iPhone I tried the official app first and it was barely usable. Especially that god awful video player that never seemed to work properly, and even when it did it just wasn’t good.
So as soon as you factor in the fact that the vast majority of Americans own iPhones, it all makes perfect sense.