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[–] [email protected] 336 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why kick 'em when they're down already?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

[Edit: upon reflection, this post went too far. To any who saw it, I apologize.]

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Apple bad

Wait hold on

People wanting to make software for widely used devices bad?

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] Fiivemacs 319 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 381 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Lemmy-like platform. But looks like they haven't implemented ActivityPub yet.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They sound pretty shady. Think we should defederate?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Dam lemmy.world at it again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I heard they have some piracy communities, so that’s reason enough for most admin

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Remember Digg? It's like that except it's mostly bots.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago

It's a website where bots talk to each other and posts links from all over the internet in order to scam corporations out of ad revenue.

Dead Internet theory personified.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

A centralized, proprietary alternative to Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I think its like Chlamydia but you catch it from sticking your head too far up your ass (hence spez has it the worst)

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[–] [email protected] 171 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sorry you lost your community. That really sucks.

On the other hand, welcome to a new community!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

I’m just passing along the message. Communicate directly with the person responsible on Mastodon.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for fighting a good fight. You're far better than 98% of the boot-consuming power trippers that folded the moment it looked like they might lose their paper throne. Welcome home.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

I’m just passing along the message. Communicate directly with the person responsible on Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you for your service o7

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Walled garden programming sub walled out of own garden

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How's your linux phone doing?

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

Eventually it was bound to happen. Still sad to see mods getting removed to make way for more Spez friendly replacements

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I’m just passing along the message. Communicate directly with the person responsible on Mastodon.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I dont get why subreddit mods work or worked for free for a company that makes money from what they do …..

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not sure what he expected. I commend all the protesting, but we all saw how reddit responded. They didn't give two shits. Yet people stick around in a toxic relationship with the site until they get removed. It's weird. Why not just make the move to Lemmy before they take everything from you?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a community here for it yet?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Closest thing is [email protected] currently, I've just reached out to one of the iOSProgramming mods about if they want to set up here

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Update: we now have [email protected], temporarily managed by me until we get some mods for it

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

I'm surprised they gave a shit for /r/iOSProgramming since it's not as popular. It's more niche but yeah sad to hear. Glad I got rid of reddit after the API shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sucks maybe you can restart your community here

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Is there a Mastodon alternative?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yea, go to another Mastodon instance

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

They sound pretty shady...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some attention hungry incompetent wannabes?

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