The freedom to create third-party clients (apps) for social media platforms has a really vital effect on accessibility, because it facilitates friendly competition (and productive copying) among a wide range of client apps, as well as allowing disabled app developers to freely create apps that meet their own accessibility needs.
Reddit’s rug-pull with free API usage was thus especially controversial among blind users, virtually all of whom were using one of various third-party apps. While Reddit eventually made some gestures towards accessibility improvements in the first-party client, this place was nonetheless created as a hedge against their caprices.
Feel free to sub! Like the rest of Lemmy, this community has a lot of growing to do if it’s to replace its counterparts among the proprietary monoliths.