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Don't blame them, probably feel massive survivor's guilt. In some ways Reddit burned them the most. Reddit cut everyone else out and specifically left these two apps.

These appdevs probably feel guilty for still being involved, mad that they were singled out, glad that they can still serve their users, anxious about the eventual hammer falling for them too - just to name a few

Major kudos to them for adding support for Lemmy. That was brave of them to say "Yeah thanks for keeping us on, I guess, but we're going to move our userbase off your platform over time"

One of the really positive things about this Reddit situation is that I've learned a lot about the community of passionate third party developers out there. I've never used Red Reader, but if he's able to keep it going with Reddit, and slowly but surely introduce users to Lemmy within its UI, then that's basically optimal. Half the battle of Lemmy is the sign up friction. If you can sign people up within their existing Reddit app, that's ideal.

I suspect support will be axed eventually - chances are many people will flock to these exempt apps to still get their 3rd party client fix, and that will put them on the radar for Reddit to find a way to justify pulling the rug out under them too (e.g. "Our app is now accessible!").

It's a shame that Reddit went like this.

Using RedReader for 5 years now. Glad to see them add Lemmy support

While I'm happy this happened I feel like this is basically Reddit saying "Look we are never going to make our app accessible, that's why we left RedReader alone"

So the non-commercial thing means that the dev can't show ads and add donations to his app? That's really scummy, they would have to work on the app without any contribution, maybe people could support him elsewhere but idk.

Still NSFW content will not be accessible

My understanding is that one implication of the API cost is that it will impact the cost of running bots/automation of moderation tasks. If this is true, I don’t think it matters much that they are allowing some third party apps if all the subs get overwhelmed with spam and bots.

Have you heard if there are any ios apps that got accessibility status?