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Don't blame them, probably feel massive survivor's guilt. In some ways Reddit burned them the most. Reddit cut everyone else out and specifically left these two apps.
These appdevs probably feel guilty for still being involved, mad that they were singled out, glad that they can still serve their users, anxious about the eventual hammer falling for them too - just to name a few
Major kudos to them for adding support for Lemmy. That was brave of them to say "Yeah thanks for keeping us on, I guess, but we're going to move our userbase off your platform over time"
It's reminiscent of bad-old-days military stories I've heard from older relatives, where guys who really pissed off the officers would be forced to eat a lavish dinner in front of everyone else in their unit while they all performed a humiliating chore.
I can totally understand that the main dev behind RedReader isn't particularly happy about, especially because he "was graced" by an exception.
In hindsight, this whole situation reminds me of Tweetbot. Being completely dependent on 1 provider for your app. Not sure, if that was a smart move. But hindsight is always 20/20.
Yeah, this has served as a massive wake-up call to a lot of talented devs. It will ultimately result in more talent choosing to focus on the "alternatives," which is good. It's too bad its happening this way, but the process was never going to be pleasant.
If you build your app against a major corporation, they are just a bad earnings call away from destroying your entire world. A lesson I was hoping that Reddit wouldn't be the one to make, but here we are I guess.
Build against open source, every time. Closed source will throw you away