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)

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

What's reddit

Sorry you lost your community. That really sucks.

On the other hand, welcome to a new community!

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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.

Thank you for your service o7

Walled garden programming sub walled out of own garden

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

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.

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

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?

Is there a community here for it yet?

just keeps Digging themselves deeper in the hole.

Thank you for your service. Now watch the place burn.

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

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.

That sucks maybe you can restart your community here

Who are the mods now?

Is there a Mastodon alternative?

They sound pretty shady...

You did well, thanks for sticking to it until the end.

fucking

Reddit is a failing business it's going to use every unilateral tactic it can. What are you going to do with that free time?

This is outrageous, it's unfair!

Did you create a new community on here yet?

fuck spez death to reddit

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

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.

Lemmy users are fuck heads. Just because you don't like Apple doesn't make every dev the bad guy. Fuck off.