> How will non-profit Reddit pay its costs?

hmm... if only there were... I don't know... some way to offer users to pay for a quality experience and subsidize that income with advertisements and reasonable API usage fees?

no, that couldn't possibly work! I mean, look at Wikipedia...

oh. right.

That's literally what Reddit does now and it's not enough

not enough to cover the costs of running reddit, or not enough to pay back the VC funding?

for what it's worth, each of my top 5 subreddits (some with millions of subs) have all gone dark.

maybe you're just really into meme/imgur post type stuff that doesn't have nearly the dedicated user base as other, more text-heavy subreddits?*

* this isn't a read; the example you gave (a picture of a weird looking fish) seems like the kind of content I described

the whole point is Reddit says that accessibility apps are exempt except in those cases where the app that offers accessibility does, you know, other things that people want their apps to do.

Ok thanks for the explanation. From what I can see the issue is also whether the app is commercial or not, so it makes sense for reddit to restrict commercial apps that make money off their content. As people are saying, the best solution is for reddit to just make their own app/website more accessible.