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View submission: Accessibility Improvements on iOS and Android
My guess: They're making a half-hearted, half-assed, half-baked attempt to add a few "accessibility" features to the official app so that they can claim they're accessible, and then have an plausible excuse to revoke free access to those 3rd party apps as well.
If they genuinely cared about making a quality app, they'd hire or buy out one of the better 3rd party apps. There are probably half a dozen or more than would suffice.
But just like youtube, twitter, facebook, or any number of commercial platforms, they don't want customizability/convenience for the user. They want a curated, directed, and optimized feed to cram promoted posts and ads down your throat, and keep you scrolling past mindless posts. They don't want discussions and user-to-user engagement. They want a tiktok/youtube/whatever clone to profit from. Their app is not designed to be user friendly and facilitate discussion, it's designed to exploit the profitability of its user base.
Comment by NoticedGenie66 at 29/07/2023 at 02:57 UTC
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Bingo.
Content has been decreasing in quality for a while, but since the API change it has taken a sharp dive. There are bots everywhere in smaller subs I used to enjoy, ragebait is way WAY more prevalent in the bigger subs, and it's going to continue going down this route.
If you remember, Alien Blue was acquired by reddit as an "official" app, not that that will ever happen again (integrating a 3PA). Now that reddit forcibly killed all the better apps, they have to half-ass accessibility features to justify killing what is left.
They just care so much.
Fuck this place after RedReader and the other good apps are gone, it's gone to shit. I will never use the useless "official" borderline spyware they pass off as an app.