Tanner B 🦕🧁 (@objc@mastodon.social)
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Today, Reddit forcibly removed me (and everyone else) as mods of /r/iOSProgramming, a subreddit of about 130k users. I was keeping the sub private / NSFW to prevent Reddit from monetizing it with ads.
  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.socialEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    Wow it must be an extremely novel experience for an iOS programmer to have a company arbitrarily make decisions about what you can and cannot do on their platform

    • samus7070@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      I wish I could say that Google is better at that. It’s basically the same story but with even less humans to talk to when you’re flagged for doing something wrong or in the case of Google your former college roommate whom you haven’t seen in 10 years did something wrong. It’s the price all mobile devs pay unless they only want to distribute to a small subset of users who have liberated their phones.

      • anon@lemm.ee
        0·
        1 year ago

        when I started with mobile apps google was easy and apple was a problem.

        nowadays apple is very clear on what they allow and what they don’t and it’s possible to go back and forth with them to get something approved.

        google is trying their hard to be as strict as apple while putting 0 of the effort in to correct problems. not to mention that android is a fucking piece of garbage to maintain. you have like 4 deadlines per year, you need to update this or that thing or your app won’t work on this or that device, or the deprecation deadline for fucking safetynet arrives and they take two weeks to repair the google play integrity service.

    • fades@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      you do realize in this regard google/Apple are two sides of the same coin right?

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think he was drawing a comparison.

        Mobile development sucks in general.

  • Pug@lemmynsfw.comB
    1·
    5 months ago

    It’s not Reddit. Thank your government. They have to do what the government says or they end up like back page. I’m not saying your Reddit was bad the government probably told them to pull it. Get use to sensership it’s only going to get worse

    • Gsus4@feddit.nl
      11·
      1 year ago

      At this point, to me, it’s fuck reddit, spez is just a scapegoat that does what the board wants and all other admin happy to comply, he doesn’t own it like elon owns twitter

      • Beefalo@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yep. Some of us remember when it was Fuck Ellen Pao, they seem to like their sacrificial CEOs over there, though I’m sure they get paid too much to be the scapegoat.

        That just makes me stop and think about how bad Musk loves being That Guy. The other ones will take the heat and then float away on their golden parachutes, you never really hear from them again. Not him. He keeps making new companies so he can be That Guy at them.

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Doesn’t having it private mean it wasn’t a community of 150k? It was a community of 1.

    I understood taking subs NSFW to keep advertising out, but taking them private was causing the community to die. Once that went beyond a few days it was time to shift platform.

  • Dalimey@ttrpg.network
    0·
    1 year ago

    Coming from r/DnDMemes I feel you dude. Thank you for putting it all on the line and sticking to what you felt was right.

  • Knossos@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    Sorry you lost your community. That really sucks.

    On the other hand, welcome to a new community!