Apollo was the shit and it was the only way to browse that site for me. Havnt gone back since June 30th. Just discovered this whole fediverse thing today. Loving it. (I'm 50. It's amazing I even managed to find this place)
You’ve probably heard this mentioned loads, but if you like Apollo, visit wefwef.app. Wefwef is an alternate Lemmy UI that is essentially an Apollo clone for Lemmy.
And Memmy too (though it’s brand new so it’s got a few bugs, and the icons are tiny). But it could really use that tab apollo had that only showed you posts from subscribed communities so you can more easily avoid the cringe communities like c/antiwork without having to manually go and block each one yourself (but at least lemmy has a recommendation blacklist unlike post-API-purge r🤮ddit).
Same, I left shortly before it closed. Now I only occasionally make posts inviting the few subs I did like to their new clones on lemmy, if any. (Using the browser version of course.)