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I checked the /r/blind sub and they have started their own Lemmy instance. Edited so Blind users can read it.

Announcement!!Open Alpha!! RBlind - A community on Lemmy, brought to you by the moderators of the /r/blind subreddit.

Since the news broke regarding the forthcoming changes to reddit’s API and the impact that will have on the third party apps and tools many of us rely upon the mods here at r/blind have been working on an accessible option for those who either cannot or will not be staying on reddit. As talk of alternatives like mastodon, lemmy, and the like have increased we decided that it would be best to reveal what we have been working on, hence this post. Several days ago we shared this with those of you on our Discord server and have been asking for feedback.

This project is by no means finished or polished, and is currently operating on development backend code and a beta UI to allow for access to still unreleased features that our community needs such as up/down votes displaying state changes, and nested comments, read this as there are and will be bugs and outstanding accestsibility problems. However, the advantage of this platform is we control the servers, the UI, and can fix accessibility concerns ourselves instead of relying on a for profit company or the generosity of app developers to do it for us, not that the latter is unappreciated.

So please be understanding of the above and we hope those of you who decide to join and see what we have done so far for all of us, and please report problems as you find them.

https://rblind.com/

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"Blind people can't see ads anyway"

-- u/spez, probably

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could unironically see this being a real reason why they don't care much about the blind community

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised he hadn't said the quiet part out loud yet in another AMA.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Fuck spez!! 🖕🖕

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am not American but doesn't this technically violate the ADA? Also that sounds in character for spez.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also not adhesiveness, soooo no idea. Are they're actually laws over there that enforce accessibility for websites? I'd be surprised if there was...

EDIT: American, not adhesiveness. WTF is with AI predictive text and autocorrect being so trash?

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 1 year ago

They said they were letting accessibility based tools keep using the API for free. (Don't mistake this as me defending Reddit's actions.)

There are ADA concerns even for places you wouldn't expect but I'm not sure if it applies to social media.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess the "won't effect accessibility apps" was also a blatant lie...

I'm glad they're making changes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

spezzy and his jackbooted thugs are busy busy telling big fat porkies to users, issuing threats to mods, and secretly creating new content policy.

https://reddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord/comments/14exvjk/reddit_is_likely_making_major_changes_to_their/

ETA : changed 'they' to 'spezzy and his jackbooted thugs' to avoid confusion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have started seeing adminforge links I am guessing that it is a webscraper that shows what is posted to reddit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

adminforge hosts libreddit, a private front-end to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pun intended?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Uplifting News

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

will redditinc realize their precious spezzy is burning down reddit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@xuxebiko this is a decision of the entire board of directors

@Gamers_Mate

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

they're a stupid lot then. threatening mods & angering users will simply ensure their IPO burns to ashes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I guess that checks out if they are incompetent enough to lose money while all of their moderators are doing all the work for free then they are probably not the brightest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You love to hear it. The beauty of open source is that you can extend it to fit your own needs. For those with disabilities, it is a means of direct empowerment -- a critical tool for overcoming obstacles without needing to beg others for help.

I look forward to hearing about the inevitable platform improvements this will bring, but I'm even more glad that the /r/blind community is able to walk away with dignity. Reddit's handling of the accessibility situation has long since crossed the line from disrespectful to insulting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How embarrassing that lemmy devs who have less than 1% the budget of reddit were ready willing and able to provide the kind of support that the r/blind mods felt comfortable just walking away from reddit and running there own lemmy instance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I imagine the relatively simple web design of these federated Reddit alternatives would be a blessing for reading apps commonly used by the blind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Being opensource also means that the blind community, that knows better than anyone else what they need, can also freely contribute to the project, being reporting bugs, requesting features, and if they have developers they can fix things themselves and submit their fixes to the code for everyone to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Good for them. Get after it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Makes sense to me.

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