'Going Dark': Reddit's API Changes

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Reddit is restricting the use of third-party apps. More than 8,000 subreddit communities shut down in protest — including r/Blind, which says the change will drastically reduce accessibility.

In this special episode, co-host Ben Brock Johnson speaks with two moderators of r/Blind about their concerns.

Credits: This episode was produced by Ben Brock Johnson and Dean Russell. Mixing and sound design by Matt Reed. Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson are the co-hosts.

(Image credit: Getty/Johner Images)

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0:00.0	WBUR podcast Boston.
0:08.6	I keep thinking about Android, but like I'm in the ecosystem,
0:11.6	I have my Apple Watch, all of my stuff is home kit.
0:14.9	I've got the series speakers.
0:16.7	I have the Pixel Watch and Google text to speech on it is so
0:20.8	laggy that it's unusable.
0:22.0	I actually had to ADB side load.
0:24.0	You speak on to it.
0:25.2	Ugh.
0:29.1	Emory, have you ever had to ADB side load e-speak onto a Pixel?
0:36.4	I was just doing that before.
0:38.4	Oh, you were just.
0:40.0	Yes.
0:43.7	So, you know, I don't really know what it means, but I know it is a kind of technical work around.
0:51.3	So last week, I talked to a couple of guys who do complicated
0:54.4	techie workarounds all the time.
0:58.3	I am Sam Prue.
1:00.2	You fast-finch.
1:01.7	My name is Noah Carver.
1:03.8	You NT Carver Zero.
1:06.4	Sam and Noah Emory grew up adapting technology to suit their lives.
1:11.5	They've had to because unfortunately, most technology is not built with their needs in mind,
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