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ericjmorey @programming.dev

1y ago

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)

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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.

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

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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)

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ericjmorey @programming.dev

1y ago

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)

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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
- Why kick 'em when they're down already?
  
  [Edit: upon reflection, this post went too far. To any who saw it, I apologize.]
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  there's a story there that I want to read
- lol gottem
- you do realize in this regard google/Apple are two sides of the same coin right?
  
  I don't think he was drawing a comparison.
  Mobile development sucks in general.
  
  Eh, no need to bring the iOS/Android fight into this. OP saw an opportunity for a joke and took it. The butt of the joke is iOS because that's what the sub is about. If it were for android the same joke could be made, though folks would probably make different ones with other more glaring issues that Google has.
- Tbf I've found google and apple fairly good to develop for(they handle app signing, deployment and more)
  Once you fork over the cash, that is...
- NSOof
- Woah! Sick burn, bro!
- We really don't need this sort of pathetic shit posting.

What's reddit
- Lemmy-like platform. But looks like they haven't implemented ActivityPub yet.
  
  They sound pretty shady. Think we should defederate?
  
  They also seem to want to replace moderators with AI and even bought a company that does so. Weird, and probably easy to abuse. Wouldn't trust.
  
  I don't know why these platforms think they'll ever take off without even implementing federation. It's 2023!
  
  hola
  
  bxdbx
- Remember Digg? It's like that except it's mostly bots.
- 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.
- A centralized, proprietary alternative to Lemmy.
- I think its like Chlamydia but you catch it from sticking your head too far up your ass (hence spez has it the worst)
- a marketing tool

Sorry you lost your community. That really sucks.
On the other hand, welcome to a new community!
- I’m just passing along the message. Communicate directly with the person responsible on Mastodon.
- More Lemmy users need to be like you.
  Why are Lemmy users Assholes.
  
  Because Lemmy users are also humans and humans are assholes.
  
  Why are Lemmy users Assholes.
  Because most Lemmy users are ex (or current) reddit users.

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.
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Thank you for your service o7
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Walled garden programming sub walled out of own garden
- How's your linux phone doing?

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’m just passing along the message. Communicate directly with the person responsible on Mastodon.
- Have you found an alt on lemmy for dnd memes?
  
  https://ttrpg.network/c/rpgmemes
  I'm new to Lemmy, not sure how to do the fancy link thing. There are a couple other communities too. I'll get to posting there eventually.

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

I dont get why subreddit mods work or worked for free for a company that makes money from what they do …..
- Probably same reason people go crazy for power, no matter how small of an amount
- You can make money doing it, you just have to have extremely loose morals.

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?
- This is borderline bootlicking. Not sure what he expected? A protest is a protest dude. That line is GOP approved.

Is there a community here for it yet?
- 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
  
  Update: we now have !ios_dev@programming.dev, temporarily managed by me until we get some mods for it
  
  I was looking for a better place to post this.

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.
- Let's be real... as long as people act like brainless animals, there will be zoos they enjoy being in. Reddit lost nothing, sooner than later more and more people will more and more give in and everything will go back to how reddit was. The number of people who care is miniscule.
  
  Reddit took a calculated risk and they probably allowed for a wide margin of error.

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.
- They don't "give a shit" about what sub it is, they just have automated things that do this.
  
  Ah that's explains it. Thank you

That sucks maybe you can restart your community here
- I’m just passing along the message. Communicate directly with the person responsible on Mastodon.

Who are the mods now?
- Some attention hungry incompetent wannabes?

Is there a Mastodon alternative?
- Yea, go to another Mastodon instance
  
  This is the way
- Firefish
- There are so many I lost count:
  Pleroma
  Misskey
  Friendica
  Firefish
  Akkoma
  And perhaps many more. Heck, even Kbin has microblogging support.
- Smile, you're already on ~~Candid Camera~~ it!
  
  Mastodon and Lemmy don't have great interoperability. They use the ActivityPub protocol in ways that are not compatible with each other.

They sound pretty shady...

You did well, thanks for sticking to it until the end.
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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?
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This is outrageous, it's unfair!

Did you create a new community on here yet?
- I’m just passing along the message. Communicate directly with the person responsible on Mastodon.
  
  Thanks for the heads up🙏

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.
- I think you might be a little confused friend.
- So ahhh... Lost Lemmer?

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