The freedom to create third-party clients (apps) for social media platforms has a really vital effect on accessibility, because it facilitates friendly competition (and productive copying) among a wide range of client apps, as well as allowing disabled app developers to freely create apps that meet their own accessibility needs.

Reddit’s rug-pull with free API usage was thus especially controversial among blind users, virtually all of whom were using one of various third-party apps. While Reddit eventually made some gestures towards accessibility improvements in the first-party client, this place was nonetheless created as a hedge against their caprices.

Feel free to sub! Like the rest of Lemmy, this community has a lot of growing to do if it’s to replace its counterparts among the proprietary monoliths.

Apple has probably the best marketing in the world. Part of that marketing success means that Apple is better at bedazzling people and making a product appealing beyond just its practical use. There’s anything wrong with Apple users, but Apple is definitely better at commodity fetishism than any other company I can think of.

What a pain. Is Android’s ‘override force-dark’ setting usable with that app at all?