The RedReader app has been given accessibility status by the graciousness of reddit and will not have to shut down. The dev is not particularly happy about how fellow devs were treated though and still plans on adding lemmy in future. Read the announcement here
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.