Just taking a shot in the dark, but I’m assuming if people were making the needed third party apps for Reddit before, they can repeat this task for Lemmy.
Thing about Lemmy is, since its federated, and fully opensource, even if it doesn’t right now, adding an accessible interface is trivial. Be it through forks/pull requests, separate clients or frontends, or as a full-fledged federated peer focused on accessibility
Exactly somebody, anybody, can just submit a pull request for their improvement and it’s done. No running the change up the flagpole, getting it approved by the board, or developing a six week communication strategy over a high contrast button.
You are absolutely correct. Lemmy’s federated nature basically guarantees that free / affordable API access will always be available to app developers.
I’ve tried out a couple of the apps, and I know of a few others. I’ve used Connect (which I’m on right now and enjoying it) and Jerboa which was nice. There’s also Thunder, boost is being made, Wefwef, and some more. I cannot speak to any of their accessibility functions, but seeing how quickly they’re being made to fill in for what 3rd party apps were for reddit, I would expect the devs would add those same or similar features. Especially since some of the devs who made the reddit 3rd party apps are making them for Lemmy now as well. Again, I cannot speak any of that as fact since I don’t have sources, but that’s what I would expect.
Just taking a shot in the dark, but I’m assuming if people were making the needed third party apps for Reddit before, they can repeat this task for Lemmy.
(Please correct me if I’m wrong though.)
Thing about Lemmy is, since its federated, and fully opensource, even if it doesn’t right now, adding an accessible interface is trivial. Be it through forks/pull requests, separate clients or frontends, or as a full-fledged federated peer focused on accessibility
Exactly somebody, anybody, can just submit a pull request for their improvement and it’s done. No running the change up the flagpole, getting it approved by the board, or developing a six week communication strategy over a high contrast button.
And even if they don’t want to merge it, you can fork and run it, and still have access to the same content and whatnot, because it’s federated
Mastodon shows this, with the whole pleroma/akkoma stuff, where an elixir based implementation became inactive, and was then forked and maintained
You are absolutely correct. Lemmy’s federated nature basically guarantees that free / affordable API access will always be available to app developers.
There are many apps in active development now, yes.
Not doubting you in anyway but where would you get this info?
I’ve tried out a couple of the apps, and I know of a few others. I’ve used Connect (which I’m on right now and enjoying it) and Jerboa which was nice. There’s also Thunder, boost is being made, Wefwef, and some more. I cannot speak to any of their accessibility functions, but seeing how quickly they’re being made to fill in for what 3rd party apps were for reddit, I would expect the devs would add those same or similar features. Especially since some of the devs who made the reddit 3rd party apps are making them for Lemmy now as well. Again, I cannot speak any of that as fact since I don’t have sources, but that’s what I would expect.