A Reddit transcription community will shut down over a 'lack of trust' in the platform | Engadget
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A group of Reddit volunteers who transcribe media from around 100 subreddits are shutting down their community, partly due to the company's controversial API changes..

A group of Reddit volunteers who transcribe media from around 100 subreddits are shutting down their community, partly due to the company’s controversial API changes…

  • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Ah, the “if we don’t have any vision impaired users anymore, we can save money on implementing accessibility; they won’t give us ad revenue anyway” gambit.

    • tjhart85@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The only thing I can figure that makes any sense at all is maybe native web functionality that will help the blind will also allow for a alternative app to be built around it (ie a wrapper) and they don’t want to see that happen.

      Ernest on KBin at the very least opened up a screen reader and played around to ensure it at least functioned for the blind (and this was before the first Reddit migration!)

      Lemmy devs seem to have built to standards, so that helps a lot and at least allows for basic functionality to work, even if it’s not optimized at all.

      And both KBin & Lemmy aren’t companies with thousands of employees! Just one guy & two devs respectively and they’re at least attempting to do what they can while simultaneously being overwhelmed with requests!

      • BornVolcano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s a lot simpler than that, and u/Spez said it himself:

        “It’s a minority of users that doesn’t reflect the general reddit population”

        Same applies here. He just doesn’t care, they aren’t impacting his bottom line enough to make an impact. And that feels disgusting even to say