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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 | Tanner B 🦕🧁 (@objc@mastodon.social) (mastodon.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ericjmorey@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Update: !ios_dev@programming.dev has been created, temporarily managed by @Ategon@programming.dev until some mods volunteer for it

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[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 360 points 10 months 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

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 121 points 10 months ago

Why kick 'em when they're down already?

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Apple bad

Wait hold on

People wanting to make software for widely used devices bad?

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[-] samus7070@programming.dev 81 points 10 months 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 43 points 10 months 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.

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[-] aport@programming.dev 18 points 10 months ago

lol gottem

[-] fades@beehaw.org 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 318 points 10 months ago

What's reddit

[-] starman@programming.dev 382 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 149 points 10 months ago

They sound pretty shady. Think we should defederate?

[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 16 points 10 months ago

Dam lemmy.world at it again

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[-] Clent@lemmy.world 115 points 10 months ago

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

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Ah so it's kinda like Digg?

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 83 points 10 months 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.

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 44 points 10 months ago

A centralized, proprietary alternative to Lemmy.

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[-] Knossos@lemmy.world 170 points 10 months ago

Sorry you lost your community. That really sucks.

On the other hand, welcome to a new community!

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 27 points 10 months ago

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

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[+] HellAwaits@lemm.ee 117 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] Gsus4@feddit.nl 105 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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

[-] jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social 52 points 10 months 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.

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[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 37 points 10 months ago

reminder that spez has literally admitted (in a print article) that he foresees himself being a slave owner

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Reminder that Reddit is a massive company and they're using spez as fall guy and it's completely working. It's the only reason he has a job still.

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

oh yeah, but it's also fun to bully the head dweeb who put himself in the position to be the face of this massive company.
He's not exactly the fall guy, he's the co-founder who was on the "victory lap" of steering the ship after the last fall guy (Ellen Pao) took the heat and he steered the ship into another problem before installing another fall guy.

I mean, that is unless we're talking about who is embedded into the company from outside entities. Have a look at Reddit's Director of Policy, who she worked for before and where, and try to post her name or history on Reddit. In my experience, it gets you permanently banned.

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[-] WilliamTheWicked@lemmy.world 106 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 44 points 10 months ago

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

[-] burak@lemmy.ml 86 points 10 months ago

Thank you for your service o7

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[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 72 points 10 months ago

Walled garden programming sub walled out of own garden

[-] terath@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

How's your linux phone doing?

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[-] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 58 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Dalimey@ttrpg.network 58 points 10 months 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.

[-] ericjmorey@programming.dev 21 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ElHexo@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

Because some of them find value in building a community, because humans are quite social.

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[-] JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 39 points 10 months ago

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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[-] sfcl33t@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 10 months ago

Is there a community here for it yet?

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 66 points 10 months ago

Closest thing is !mobiledev@programming.dev currently, I've just reached out to one of the iOSProgramming mods about if they want to set up here

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 20 points 10 months ago

Update: we now have !ios_dev@programming.dev, temporarily managed by me until we get some mods for it

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

reddit-logo just keeps Digging themselves deeper in the hole.

Thank you for your service. Now watch the place burn. why-shouldnt-i

fidel-salute-big

[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago

Reddit and ~~twitter~~ X, racing to see who can burn their company to ash the quickest.

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[-] reevesnick@programming.dev 25 points 10 months 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.

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[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 21 points 10 months ago

That sucks maybe you can restart your community here

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[-] SittingWave@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago

Who are the mods now?

[-] sverit@feddit.de 19 points 10 months ago

Some attention hungry incompetent wannabes?

[-] Callie@pawb.social 15 points 10 months ago

So Spez himself?

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[-] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Is there a Mastodon alternative?

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago

Yea, go to another Mastodon instance

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[-] Rounddog@feddit.ch 15 points 10 months ago

They sound pretty shady...

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