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 | Tanner B š¦š§ (@objc@mastodon.social)
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from ericjmorey@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 15 Aug 2023 20:38
https://programming.dev/post/1758694
from ericjmorey@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev on 15 Aug 2023 20:38
https://programming.dev/post/1758694
Update: !ios_dev@programming.dev has been created, temporarily managed by @Ategon@programming.dev until some mods volunteer for it
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Itās not Reddit. Thank your government. They have to do what the government says or they end up like back page. Iām not saying your Reddit was bad the government probably told them to pull it. Get use to sensership itās only going to get worse
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
I wish I could say that Google is better at that. Itās basically the same story but with even less humans to talk to when youāre flagged for doing something wrong or in the case of Google your former college roommate whom you havenāt seen in 10 years did something wrong. Itās the price all mobile devs pay unless they only want to distribute to a small subset of users who have liberated their phones.
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 donāt and itās 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 wonāt 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.
tbh i think that safetynet and other attestation features are a waste of time and should die.
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