Biography
Christian Selig is a Canadian iOS developer who created and maintained Apollo, a popular third-party Reddit client, from its 2015 beta until 2023. In April 2023, Reddit announced new API pricing, and Selig calculated that operating Apollo under the new terms would cost roughly US$20 million per year, which he deemed financially untenable. His public disclosure of that figure helped trigger a platform-wide protest in which thousands of subreddits went dark, and he announced Apollo would shut down on June 30, 2023. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman publicly criticized Selig during an AMA, citing Selig's release of a recorded private phone call, while Selig defended his conduct. He became one of the central figures in the 2023 Reddit API dispute.