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    I would describe Apollo as an accessibility app in the sense that the regular Reddit app is unusable.

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    How do they define “accessibility app”. It sounds like almost every third party app is more accessible than the official app. So they’re all addressing accessibility needs.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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    I believe it’s a bait.

    Over at r/ModCoord they say they held a private call with some developers, none of the 3rd party apps devs were invited apparently.

    There’s a sticky post containing full notes of the call (I don’t know if it’s ok to link reddit here so I won’t), their promises are really vague, “promising” to let some apps use the API for free is only one of them, they’re offering to postpone the API changes if mods don’t close the subs, and they’re making a lot of excuses for their very lacking tools, “promising” they’ll do better this time.

    If we consider they’re going public later this year, it makes sense they’re trying to damage control as much as possible so the protest doesn’t ruin their IPO, while actually having no intention to follow up on their words.

    If magazines start picking up on their empty words, like the article you linked, it could appear redditors are protesting for nothing, that would be really sad.

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    “Non-commercial,” AKA give us all your hard work for free. No subscriptions, you won’t be compensated for your work. How are you supposed to make enough to support your app as a dev in this scenario? You’re not. It’s all PR damage control and it’s pathetic. Once again trying to profit off free labour.

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    So include accessibility features in your already existing third party app and problem solved? Or does it need to be an app exclusively for people with disabilities?

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    all the data are mine all the money is mine. mine. mine. mine.

    a totalitarian content vacuum, they created nothing : everything is written by you, linked by you and curated by you and now they want to charge you for looking at it.

    what the fuck happened to the internet.

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      what the fuck happened to the internet.

      Capitalism got to it. Pretty simple I would say.

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      It’s a cycle. Everyone wants their piece of the pie, and a lot of companies shoot themselves in the foot trying to get it. I hope more people move to lemmy. It has real long term potential.

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      It is the only natural conclusion of the market economy and societies that use it. Just check what is happening to democratic institutions globally. :)

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    Well like, of course. But that’s still 0.1% of the bare minimum that’s needed.

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    They also send 7 million dollar estimate to community app with no monetization or ads so you can’t take what they say to face value.

  • Padraig Fahy 🌈@mastodon.ie
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    @RadDevon Nothing more than a thinly veiled acknowledgement of the current protest.

    Doesn’t matter if they extend it from July to September, it’s _still_ going to be implemented. What a joke of a website.

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    What’s to stop all 3rd party app users migrating to accessibility focused 3rd party apps rather than the 1st party one?

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      “non-commercial”. Resumable that means the app devs can’t make money from it. Which excludes many of the most popular apps