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RadDevon@lemmy.ml to Reddit@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Reddit now says it will allow free API access for developers of accessibility apps

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Reddit now says it will allow free API access for developers of accessibility apps

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RadDevon@lemmy.ml to Reddit@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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Reddit says that developers who make non-commercial accessibility apps that make use of the online forum's API services will now get "exemptions from our large-scale pricing terms."
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    “Non-commercial” is still going to kill all development for all the third party apps regardless. This is surprisingly worse than their original decision, because now they can try and pretend like it’s other people’s problems to make their website accessable.

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      that’s not true. There are open source 3rd-parties like Infinity that are non-commercial.

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        Infinity is awesome, I’m really going to miss it

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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          The developer hasn’t said Infinity’s being killed afaik, he appears to be considering having users enter their own Reddit API keys, although really that’s going to be a barrier for some

          https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/13xb61g/how_will_infinity_react_to_new_api_cost_will_this/jmqnwzp/

          This isn’t a viable solution in my opinion though, depending on whatever restrictions Reddit chooses. Atm we know the new API won’t allow access to NSFW labelled content, but there could be other limitations coming when users start plugging their own keys into apps

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            Thanks, I have no idea what “entering your own API key” even means, so yeah, definitely a barrier for me

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