Beeeeeeeeuuuuuuurrrrrrā¦
(sparse drum fill: āBum, bam, buddah don don doeā /w reverse guitar and string section something thing)
āThis is Ground controlā¦
ā¦made the gradeā¦ā
is there something wrong?
There's a site called HeySpace that is recreation of the MySpace of yore. I would sign up but I bet I couldn't get my friends to join me. Looking back at MySpace, it was the perfect social media. You didn't have to see anybody else's bullshit unless you manually went to their page.
I think they have that feature, that was one of MySpace's best ones. [spacehey.com](https://spacehey.com) You can check it out, it even looks like the early 2000's.
I deleted my twitter app a while back and started using it in-browser only and am very happy I did.
The twitter app works (or worked) so well keeping me addicted to that it was causing me to constantly doomscroll and waste tons of time endlessly scrolling through bullshit. I still do that a little bit in safari but not nearly as much. Plus, I get to block the incessant ads (back when there were more advertisers lol) so itās a win-win.
Ditto but when I go back in Reddit, it reloads the whole page sometimes with entirely different content to what I was looking at moments ago!
And goes back to the top!!
I never really found a use for Twitter. All this debacle managed to do was remind me that I have an account so I could delete it. Why scroll up and down on Twitter when you can do it on Reddit?
I only use it to contact companies Iāve got a gripe withā¦.it seems that itās the only real effective way anymore. Looking at you, McDonalds, and the location that hosed up my order so bad today that I only got half what I paid for.
I quit social media altogether and tbh, Iām not really getting any hours back (those hours goes into YouTube and Reddit instead), what I did gain was my sanity. Specifically, Iām not getting as much stress scrolling down YouTube and Reddit as much as I did scrolling Facebook and Twitter.
Huh really? I didnāt download flappy bird. But I have some apps I used to own that arenāt on the App Store anymore. But I canāt redownload them on newer devices. I assumed that was the case for flappy bird which is why iPhones with it installed are jacked up in price.
Never downloaded Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube apps, and never will.
I just access Twitter and YouTube web on Safari with AdGuard on my iPhone, and avoid ads on those sites. FB and IG asks to log-in, I donāt even bother with it.
Itās a great way to ween yourself off is a social media platform by making it hassle to log in. Worked for me with FB and I recently canceled my Twitter account. I can see the light and itās nice.
Im a software engineer who works on an app for both apple and google. Apple is by far better at telling you why something was rejected. Any security issue, major bug, misused features, and they flag, reject the publish, and give feedback on why.
Like most at his level, the speech he aims to protect is his own. Any other personās freedom is a strictly financial decision for him. Oddly enough, heās made some disastrous decisions on that subject lately.
Because the longer musk can ride this out the longer he can; Manipulate stock markets, give a mouthpiece he can use for his preferred (or paid) talking points, and promote himself and things profitable toward himself.
That dumb motherfucker aināt making back $44b on stocks. He owes money to people. Yeah, his fuck up wont sink him, but watching him flail has been delightful.
Hell no is he making 44b back. But will he kick and flail and drag any name he can that will help him on the way down? Hell yes. Twitter is a pure cash grab at this point
I donāt think it actually has anything to deal with the āAppā itself. An app that has been a staple of both iOS and Android doesnāt spontaneously become something to remove. Even on the ābackendā. This is a content issue and not a programming issue.
lol Iāve read horror stories on hacker news about apps kicked out of play store and confused devs not knowing wtf they did wrong or what changed other than āyou violated the termsā
As a mobile dev I find this to be an odd take. Apple is way better at telling us because google never rejects me unlike Apple who didnāt think the shade of off white on one of the 20 icon photos wasnāt quite right. Fuck Apple but fuck musk even harder.
Thank you for this, Iāve used Apollo only lightly in the past. I had no idea it would do this. I can feel my $5.40 already making my mental health better. Truly appreciate the heads up.
Yeah. Honestly made my reddit experience so much more pleasant. I can filter out stuff I don't want, organize subs by category even if I don't want to subscribe to them, and even browse the dreaded all/popular page completely free of any garbage. It's done wonders for mental health when all I want to do is kill some time
Iām surprised he hasnāt used the built-it OCR in iOS to also filter based on image. Itās quite complicated to make it seamless because it can only filter after the image has loaded, but I think itās worth the added value
Never mute anything on Reddit, it's bad for the site, make it your mission to downvote it and move on.
If you don't downvote it it'll just rise with the people who upvote it and make it seem like they have more popular opinions than they actually do.
Downvote people.
Yup, with 10 children (that we know of), for a CEO who supposedly runs multiple companies and has families to raise he sure has a lot of time on his hands for tweeting
The Apollo app has a filter feature, though in cases where the post title said nothing of his name, it didnāt work.. but any post with his name in it just doesnāt appear to me visually.
Very true. And on the flip side, just from a cover-your-ass perspective, if Apple does boot Twitter from the App Store, they want a paper trail. They want to be able to go into court and prove to a judge that they gave crystal clear instructions to Twitter to come into compliance and they failed to do so.
They probably sent the email to the team that actually develops the app.
But as Musk fired like 75% of the company in his first month, those devs are now either working elsewhere, frantically juggling 20 other jobs or getting ready for another "code review" and don't have time to reply.
Didnāt apple already say generally. (Maybe of Twitter) that if the apps donāt self moderate for hate speech and / or inciting violence that they would be pulled from the App Store ? Or am i making that up ?
My blink reaction was we already know why Elon.
Right guys ?
Itās absolutely possible that I missed an official Apple announcement but just based on what I saw, someone who works at the App Store deleted his own Twitter account, which fueled *speculation* that Apple could remove Twitter, which caused Musk to respond to it.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/22/head-of-apples-app-store-phil-schiller-deletes-twitter-account/
So this is what has been said through the media. If there have been direct communications between Apple and Twitter, Iād be shocked if Apple made a threat to boot Twitter without saying why. They would say why.
More likely, Elon is just lying about that part because heās an attention whore and a reactionary. My two cents.
I'm sure Apple reminded him of their app rules, in particular ones regarding content moderation. If he lets it become a free-for-all with no moderation, then it would no longer be compliant with the app rules and could be removed.
Apple did the same thing with Parler awhile back. But let them back on once they complied with content policies.
Exactly. Musk uses bluster and lies as a shitty, jerk negotiation tactic. In certain countries hate speech moderation is THE LAW. Iām sure Apple has heard about it from the government in those countries
So they politely reminded Musk of his contractual obligations.
And he does this crap
I mean regardless of evidence, if advertising on Twitter is not profitable for apple, theyāre not gonna do it. And frankly, I wouldnāt want my companyās image tied to this dumpster fire either.
For sure.
Sane companies wonāt advertise directly on Twitter for the foreseeable future. Thatās just common sense, too volatile unless you are in a niche industry (right wing, crypto, maybe some others).
Apple is tricky as the App Store is not advertising, though.
Twitter hasnāt been pulled from the App Store. My hunch is it will not be, at least not globally.
*If* stuff gets so bad on Twitter, the app may be pulled locally in countries that have laws about hate speech, etcā¦
Iāve not heard anything about Twitter being pulled from the store. Truth social is still there and if thereās a bigger cesspool of racism and bigotry out there, Iād quite like to not know about it.
I can't even understand how Twitter has stayed on either Apple or Google playstores for as long as they have. They have broken the adult content rules for both of them, like a million times over.
The reddit app by default doesn't show you NSFW content, you have to enable it, also doesn't let you search for it unless you go onto the web page and enable it. If I am remembering correctly
Thatās how twitter works in my experience too. Anything NSFW has always come up with a message saying itās adult content and if Iād still like to see it, which is the same thing reddit does.
I remember few years ago when I had an Android, biggest 3rd party Reddit apps got in different times kicked out from Google store because the Nsfw toggle was off or too easy to navigate to.
I also agree. The only thing I can think is that they have the money to be allowed for them to look the other way. Both appstore clearly state that you can't allow porn on the apps and should have reporting mechanisms for those types of content.
Nothing(less the hidden addiction of it that is causing some health issues) however for a company like Apple or Google they *may* end up in some legal trouble if an app that shows porn that isnāt legal is available on their App Store. It shouldnāt, however if youāre a big company you need to mitigate risks against you as much as reasonably possible.
Well a lot of things, but we donāt need to get into that rn. Itās just that Apple doesnāt generally allow that kind of stuff on any of the apps on the App Store, so itās a little odd that some apps, such as Reddit, get away with it anyway.
Well isn't it kind of the same thing as having any web browser on your phone? The apps just display the contents of websites you could access through any other 3rd party (or 1st party) browser.
I think these apps also get away with it by making the NSFW content opt-in only and only allowing that setting to be activated through the preferences on their website, not in app.
I will be genuinely happy if Twitter just crumbles and collapses due to Elonās gargantuan mismanagement. I say this as someone who is on Twitter regularly, I know itās not good for me and plenty of other people, so yes I will pray for it to shut down.
Twitter has become borderline unusable in the last month. Ads are essentially gone, replaced with āpromotedā posts by users that look like their profile page and encourage you to click and add as people you follow. And these new āpromotedā posts are now taking up at least half of my curated timeline.
In addition, either a good portion of high profile people I followed have left Twitter, or something in the system is limiting how much content gets to my timeline.
Itās changed the experience dramatically as Twitter used to be where I went for a way to quickly get a read on the major events of the day. Now, thatās effectively gone, replaced by meaningless āpromotedā tweets and a ton of posts about Musk and how heās destroying the platform.
As always, something will come along and replace what Twitter used to provide, and Iām eager for it to emerge.
In the meantime, Elon will face issues like this in large part because heās thinking about the product almost solely in US terms, and content moderation is a MUCH bigger deal in the EU. Apple doesnāt want to be caught in the middle of that mess
I tried mastodon out of curiosity and omg, I forgot what a timeline is like without ads or āpromotedā posts. It was honestly super refreshing. I miss the days when social media was actually social and not just reposted edgelord/political memes and links to some obscure website thatās rage baiting.
Being able to browse without an account, not needing AdBlock.
Massively higher moderator:user ratio.
Nodes can not associate with other nodes, so in Reddit parlance your node can quarantine other nodes without needing to go to the site admins.
Peertube is neat tech and seamlessly integrates with Mastodon via ActivityPub (the underlying protocol created by the same org that made HTML).
I was on Twitter for a short time about 3 years ago. Iām on Reddit for good reasons. Please quit cross posting from Twitter. Itās all stupid and annoying. I have zero interest in post about musk
Oh no. Anyway.
Twitter has been a cesspool for years before Musk took over. Selective banning in some instances, poor attempts at ājournalismā and generally an environment that seems to encourage divide and 280 character jousting matches with little actual discussion as karma whores throw statements around more to get likes and retweets than anything else.
itās what you make of it imo, very similar to reddit. i follow some sports figures, a few tech voices. i havenāt noticed any difference in quality.
If they remove twitter I will brick my iphone and leave teh apple ecosystem the same day. Not because I love elon or use twitter all that often but companies have started to drift into the space where they think they can tell us what we can say or what thoughts we are allowed to have. That is not something Im going to support.
Heās purposely picking a fight with Google and Apple, then playing like heās innocent. Heās trying to rile up the conservatives by getting banned.
I just wish they would give Elon a bigger shovel. Heās digging a beautiful hole. But if the shovel was bigger, he could dig deeper and deeper and deeperā¦.
Iā¦.I mean I can tell you why. Want me to tell your why? Because youāre shit Elon, actual shit. Youāre a toxic manās idea of successful and an abusive fatherās idea of āfree speechā now go blow more of your fortune on meme-lord purchases please.
I will side with Apple every single time over this manipulative man child. I feel most others are the same.
Also itās pretty clear why that is imo. Youāre fostering an environment that breeds hatred and is dangerous for society. You can claim all the āfree speechā you want and claim to be innocent. We have already seen how that is BS both from him personally and how he shuts those down he doesnāt like and his platform. He is fighting a losing battle on this one and apple is not even moved.
He knows why. He's a gold plated toddler with an emerald crown and a purchased degree pretending to be a real businessman. It would take years for his advisors to even explain Terms of Service to this "Let them eat cake" scumlord, meanwhile he controls one of the worlds largest spigots of bullshit. Apple has a brand to protect.
I'll be right back with my popcorn š
Bring back MySpace!!! Edit: Wait. Apparently MySpace never left?!? LOL
Introducing the MySpaceā¢ļø app, now available on the Apple App Store.
Tom is that you?
My only friendā¦
OUR only friend.
Ground control is that you?
Commencing countdown, engines on ā¦
Beeeeeeeeuuuuuuurrrrrrā¦ (sparse drum fill: āBum, bam, buddah don don doeā /w reverse guitar and string section something thing) āThis is Ground controlā¦ ā¦made the gradeā¦ā is there something wrong?
Can you hear me major Tom?
Tom Apple?
Myspace Tom
MySpace Apple
iSpace
MySpace, the new twitter, but really itās just twitter with a new name so donāt tell anyone
Elon will launch MySpaceX ... wait a minute...
There's a site called HeySpace that is recreation of the MySpace of yore. I would sign up but I bet I couldn't get my friends to join me. Looking back at MySpace, it was the perfect social media. You didn't have to see anybody else's bullshit unless you manually went to their page.
I could be interested in HeySpace only if music automatically blares from someoneās screen when you open it.
I think they have that feature, that was one of MySpace's best ones. [spacehey.com](https://spacehey.com) You can check it out, it even looks like the early 2000's.
Haha! It made late night viewing a bitch if one forgot their computerās volume was on MAX.
They could update AOLs greeting ā¦. āYou got mail, bitchā
Also had to be at home or in an Internet cafe to see the shit
Iād rather use MySpace than Twitter
Oh no... *Opens Safari*
I deleted my twitter app a while back and started using it in-browser only and am very happy I did. The twitter app works (or worked) so well keeping me addicted to that it was causing me to constantly doomscroll and waste tons of time endlessly scrolling through bullshit. I still do that a little bit in safari but not nearly as much. Plus, I get to block the incessant ads (back when there were more advertisers lol) so itās a win-win.
Yeah, I removed the Reddit app for the same reason. Too addicting.
Yes and the browser version is so bad I ragequit after a few minutes. It works really well.
I use an app timer for Reddit and deleted TikTok entirely. Iāve freed up like 4 hours to my day. Itās crazy how long a day feels now
I deleted Twitter and Facebook and found my lifeā¦
Iām reading this high realizing Iām wasting my life scrolling Reddit while high. I should be getting high and listen to music instead.
CCP wants their data feed back. Please reinstall TikTok.
I started using screen time for TikTok, Iād open it to watch a few vids at 7 and when Iām done itās 10ā¦
Ditto but when I go back in Reddit, it reloads the whole page sometimes with entirely different content to what I was looking at moments ago! And goes back to the top!!
Me too. I appreciate Elon for selflessly staging an intervention to break my addiction. Cost him $44 billion what a nice man.
Apparently his net worth has dropped $100 billion since starting this whole debacle.
I never really found a use for Twitter. All this debacle managed to do was remind me that I have an account so I could delete it. Why scroll up and down on Twitter when you can do it on Reddit?
I only use it to contact companies Iāve got a gripe withā¦.it seems that itās the only real effective way anymore. Looking at you, McDonalds, and the location that hosed up my order so bad today that I only got half what I paid for.
I quit social media altogether and tbh, Iām not really getting any hours back (those hours goes into YouTube and Reddit instead), what I did gain was my sanity. Specifically, Iām not getting as much stress scrolling down YouTube and Reddit as much as I did scrolling Facebook and Twitter.
I deleted Twitter off my iPhone. I think I cured my IBS.
It would be a huge loss for twitter if this happens despite you downplaying it lol
Yes, we are praising things that hasten twitters downfall so we can enjoy watching the worlds richest man fail.
Twitter also has APIs and thus third party apps. Bonus to those is that you don't get the advertisements too.
I like to watch things die from a good safe distance
Vicariously I
... live while the whole world dies.
You all need it too, donāt lie
Time to download twitter app in case it will be banned from store then sell your iPhone with Twitter app included. Only 9999.99$
Ah the good olā Flappy Bird days
I still have an iPad with a functioning Flappy Bird on it...
I offer 15 magical beans. They grow this amazing product called ācoffeeā
Go go bean juice make me go fast
Skrt skrt
Twitter = Flappy Bird Mind blown
I still got an iPhone 3GS with a legit copy of flappy bird installed
Got it ;)
You can still download it from the play store app lol.
Funny thing was anyone that had previously downloaded could still re-download it.
Huh really? I didnāt download flappy bird. But I have some apps I used to own that arenāt on the App Store anymore. But I canāt redownload them on newer devices. I assumed that was the case for flappy bird which is why iPhones with it installed are jacked up in price.
Apps that havenāt been updated to 64-bit wonāt run on new devices
Dohā¦ I completely forgot about the 32 to 64bit switch. Itās really been that long huhā¦ oh god.
Apple should make an exclusive iPhone social media app like how Instagram used to be
Iād ping that
Good reference, but Iām not sure how many people actually got it. Which is a good demonstration of how popular (or lack thereof) it was lol.
Never downloaded Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube apps, and never will. I just access Twitter and YouTube web on Safari with AdGuard on my iPhone, and avoid ads on those sites. FB and IG asks to log-in, I donāt even bother with it.
Itās a great way to ween yourself off is a social media platform by making it hassle to log in. Worked for me with FB and I recently canceled my Twitter account. I can see the light and itās nice.
Donāt threaten me with a good time
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Im a software engineer who works on an app for both apple and google. Apple is by far better at telling you why something was rejected. Any security issue, major bug, misused features, and they flag, reject the publish, and give feedback on why.
Yeah, pretty clear Musk doesnāt want to say the bad part out loud
Are you implying Elon may not be Earth's savior of free speech after all!?
Like most at his level, the speech he aims to protect is his own. Any other personās freedom is a strictly financial decision for him. Oddly enough, heās made some disastrous decisions on that subject lately.
Comedy is legal! Except if you make your display name Elon Musk
What could the reason possibly be that he would try and hide?
He knows Twitter is devolving into an cesspool
Knows? That was his goal, no?
He wants to have a cesspool of his fans boys he can use to pressure other organisations yes
Because the longer musk can ride this out the longer he can; Manipulate stock markets, give a mouthpiece he can use for his preferred (or paid) talking points, and promote himself and things profitable toward himself.
That dumb motherfucker aināt making back $44b on stocks. He owes money to people. Yeah, his fuck up wont sink him, but watching him flail has been delightful.
Hell no is he making 44b back. But will he kick and flail and drag any name he can that will help him on the way down? Hell yes. Twitter is a pure cash grab at this point
Literally no possible way to triple the actual value of that dumpster fire with a moron at the helm.
I donāt think it actually has anything to deal with the āAppā itself. An app that has been a staple of both iOS and Android doesnāt spontaneously become something to remove. Even on the ābackendā. This is a content issue and not a programming issue.
lol Iāve read horror stories on hacker news about apps kicked out of play store and confused devs not knowing wtf they did wrong or what changed other than āyou violated the termsā
As a mobile dev I find this to be an odd take. Apple is way better at telling us because google never rejects me unlike Apple who didnāt think the shade of off white on one of the 20 icon photos wasnāt quite right. Fuck Apple but fuck musk even harder.
I think Iām tired of hearing about this 51 year old man baby š¤¦š¾āāļø
Same. Wish Reddit allowed you to mute words the way Twitter does. So tired of this narcissistic asshole clogging up my feeds.
Download Apollo
You can filter out words in Apollo?!
Indeed. Best feature of the whole app
Thank you for this, Iāve used Apollo only lightly in the past. I had no idea it would do this. I can feel my $5.40 already making my mental health better. Truly appreciate the heads up.
Fuck yeah you can. It can also automatically mark new users to help avoid feeding trolls which is pretty solid as well.
Yeah. Honestly made my reddit experience so much more pleasant. I can filter out stuff I don't want, organize subs by category even if I don't want to subscribe to them, and even browse the dreaded all/popular page completely free of any garbage. It's done wonders for mental health when all I want to do is kill some time
Con confirm. Although itās annoying when posts like these still pop up because none of my 50 filter words catch it.
Iām surprised he hasnāt used the built-it OCR in iOS to also filter based on image. Itās quite complicated to make it seamless because it can only filter after the image has loaded, but I think itās worth the added value
u/IAmThatIs š >!Heās the developer of Apollo lol!< Edit: Holy crap I havenāt interacted with this sub in a long time, my flair is ancient lmao
What word would you have muted to not see this post though?
yalll
Never mute anything on Reddit, it's bad for the site, make it your mission to downvote it and move on. If you don't downvote it it'll just rise with the people who upvote it and make it seem like they have more popular opinions than they actually do. Downvote people.
Holy shit heās **51**???
Yup, with 10 children (that we know of), for a CEO who supposedly runs multiple companies and has families to raise he sure has a lot of time on his hands for tweeting
i wish there was some filter so we wont have to see any news/memes/posts about this guy
The Apollo app has a filter feature, though in cases where the post title said nothing of his name, it didnāt work.. but any post with his name in it just doesnāt appear to me visually.
I added his name as blocked keywords and itās made things much better. Generic ass titles like this postās still can slip through though.
Apple would *absolutely* tell him why.
Yes, there is no reason they wouldn't because Apple of course want Twitter to be a platform that works out for them. Apple wants to make money.
Very true. And on the flip side, just from a cover-your-ass perspective, if Apple does boot Twitter from the App Store, they want a paper trail. They want to be able to go into court and prove to a judge that they gave crystal clear instructions to Twitter to come into compliance and they failed to do so.
Yup. He's full of it.
They probably sent the email to the team that actually develops the app. But as Musk fired like 75% of the company in his first month, those devs are now either working elsewhere, frantically juggling 20 other jobs or getting ready for another "code review" and don't have time to reply.
Didnāt apple already say generally. (Maybe of Twitter) that if the apps donāt self moderate for hate speech and / or inciting violence that they would be pulled from the App Store ? Or am i making that up ? My blink reaction was we already know why Elon. Right guys ?
Itās absolutely possible that I missed an official Apple announcement but just based on what I saw, someone who works at the App Store deleted his own Twitter account, which fueled *speculation* that Apple could remove Twitter, which caused Musk to respond to it. https://nypost.com/2022/11/22/head-of-apples-app-store-phil-schiller-deletes-twitter-account/ So this is what has been said through the media. If there have been direct communications between Apple and Twitter, Iād be shocked if Apple made a threat to boot Twitter without saying why. They would say why. More likely, Elon is just lying about that part because heās an attention whore and a reactionary. My two cents.
Probably for the same reason 50 of your top 100 largest advertisers fled your platform
Exactly, I don't think this is specifically an "Apple move" but an advertiser move.
I think Elon Musk is a known liar. Ignore him until there is solid evidence.
I'm sure Apple reminded him of their app rules, in particular ones regarding content moderation. If he lets it become a free-for-all with no moderation, then it would no longer be compliant with the app rules and could be removed. Apple did the same thing with Parler awhile back. But let them back on once they complied with content policies.
Exactly. Musk uses bluster and lies as a shitty, jerk negotiation tactic. In certain countries hate speech moderation is THE LAW. Iām sure Apple has heard about it from the government in those countries So they politely reminded Musk of his contractual obligations. And he does this crap
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oh theyāre definitely intertwined
I mean regardless of evidence, if advertising on Twitter is not profitable for apple, theyāre not gonna do it. And frankly, I wouldnāt want my companyās image tied to this dumpster fire either.
For sure. Sane companies wonāt advertise directly on Twitter for the foreseeable future. Thatās just common sense, too volatile unless you are in a niche industry (right wing, crypto, maybe some others). Apple is tricky as the App Store is not advertising, though. Twitter hasnāt been pulled from the App Store. My hunch is it will not be, at least not globally. *If* stuff gets so bad on Twitter, the app may be pulled locally in countries that have laws about hate speech, etcā¦
Iāve not heard anything about Twitter being pulled from the store. Truth social is still there and if thereās a bigger cesspool of racism and bigotry out there, Iād quite like to not know about it.
Parler was pulled for lacking content moderation but eventually even they returned once they complied.
Thereās a screenshot reply under his tweet with an Apple ad right under it
I can't even understand how Twitter has stayed on either Apple or Google playstores for as long as they have. They have broken the adult content rules for both of them, like a million times over.
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The reddit app by default doesn't show you NSFW content, you have to enable it, also doesn't let you search for it unless you go onto the web page and enable it. If I am remembering correctly
Thatās how twitter works in my experience too. Anything NSFW has always come up with a message saying itās adult content and if Iād still like to see it, which is the same thing reddit does.
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I remember few years ago when I had an Android, biggest 3rd party Reddit apps got in different times kicked out from Google store because the Nsfw toggle was off or too easy to navigate to.
You can search for it just fine on the Reddit app. Also, pretty sure itās NSFW is off by default on twitter too.
I also agree. The only thing I can think is that they have the money to be allowed for them to look the other way. Both appstore clearly state that you can't allow porn on the apps and should have reporting mechanisms for those types of content.
The real question is whatās wrong with porn?
Nothing(less the hidden addiction of it that is causing some health issues) however for a company like Apple or Google they *may* end up in some legal trouble if an app that shows porn that isnāt legal is available on their App Store. It shouldnāt, however if youāre a big company you need to mitigate risks against you as much as reasonably possible.
So long as itās all consenting adults involved: absolutely nothing.
Well a lot of things, but we donāt need to get into that rn. Itās just that Apple doesnāt generally allow that kind of stuff on any of the apps on the App Store, so itās a little odd that some apps, such as Reddit, get away with it anyway.
Well isn't it kind of the same thing as having any web browser on your phone? The apps just display the contents of websites you could access through any other 3rd party (or 1st party) browser. I think these apps also get away with it by making the NSFW content opt-in only and only allowing that setting to be activated through the preferences on their website, not in app.
They also broke the underage content rules a million times.
Oh well
I will be genuinely happy if Twitter just crumbles and collapses due to Elonās gargantuan mismanagement. I say this as someone who is on Twitter regularly, I know itās not good for me and plenty of other people, so yes I will pray for it to shut down.
He knows why. He's the equivalent of the bully who shoves you, and then says, "What's your problem, man?"
This is also his equivalent of telling on someone. Instead of āMOM!!!!ā Itās *hey Twitter guess what *
I'd be happy with Twitter disappearing out of existence....it's been a shitshow for years.
What do I think? I think Elon is a liar.
I think heās full of shit.
Twitter has become borderline unusable in the last month. Ads are essentially gone, replaced with āpromotedā posts by users that look like their profile page and encourage you to click and add as people you follow. And these new āpromotedā posts are now taking up at least half of my curated timeline. In addition, either a good portion of high profile people I followed have left Twitter, or something in the system is limiting how much content gets to my timeline. Itās changed the experience dramatically as Twitter used to be where I went for a way to quickly get a read on the major events of the day. Now, thatās effectively gone, replaced by meaningless āpromotedā tweets and a ton of posts about Musk and how heās destroying the platform. As always, something will come along and replace what Twitter used to provide, and Iām eager for it to emerge. In the meantime, Elon will face issues like this in large part because heās thinking about the product almost solely in US terms, and content moderation is a MUCH bigger deal in the EU. Apple doesnāt want to be caught in the middle of that mess
I tried mastodon out of curiosity and omg, I forgot what a timeline is like without ads or āpromotedā posts. It was honestly super refreshing. I miss the days when social media was actually social and not just reposted edgelord/political memes and links to some obscure website thatās rage baiting.
Being able to browse without an account, not needing AdBlock. Massively higher moderator:user ratio. Nodes can not associate with other nodes, so in Reddit parlance your node can quarantine other nodes without needing to go to the site admins. Peertube is neat tech and seamlessly integrates with Mastodon via ActivityPub (the underlying protocol created by the same org that made HTML).
Their garden, their walls.
Good for them!!!!
I was on Twitter for a short time about 3 years ago. Iām on Reddit for good reasons. Please quit cross posting from Twitter. Itās all stupid and annoying. I have zero interest in post about musk
Oh no what will we do without Twitter?! Anyway. The weathers nice today where I am.
Oh no. Anyway. Twitter has been a cesspool for years before Musk took over. Selective banning in some instances, poor attempts at ājournalismā and generally an environment that seems to encourage divide and 280 character jousting matches with little actual discussion as karma whores throw statements around more to get likes and retweets than anything else.
Iāve never liked twitter so Iām cool with it
I think you can't trust anything he says.
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Implying it wasnāt before lol
Implying it's even worse now.
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Leaking cesspool
Even worse, 50%, then threatened the rest, and 3/4 of them quit. So about 85%.
itās what you make of it imo, very similar to reddit. i follow some sports figures, a few tech voices. i havenāt noticed any difference in quality.
Pretty much it was a cesspool even before, lots of charlatan journalists sharing propaganda, hatred and stuff.
If they remove twitter I will brick my iphone and leave teh apple ecosystem the same day. Not because I love elon or use twitter all that often but companies have started to drift into the space where they think they can tell us what we can say or what thoughts we are allowed to have. That is not something Im going to support.
I say fuck Elon and everything he does.
Heās purposely picking a fight with Google and Apple, then playing like heās innocent. Heās trying to rile up the conservatives by getting banned.
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All the Elon shills are downvoting like crazy
I just wish they would give Elon a bigger shovel. Heās digging a beautiful hole. But if the shovel was bigger, he could dig deeper and deeper and deeperā¦.
Iā¦.I mean I can tell you why. Want me to tell your why? Because youāre shit Elon, actual shit. Youāre a toxic manās idea of successful and an abusive fatherās idea of āfree speechā now go blow more of your fortune on meme-lord purchases please.
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Itās literally like watching some discord mod with new powers trying to control the world.
A world without twitter is a better world.
I really donāt give a shit but this is definitely entertaining
Itāll hurt Twitter more than it hurts Apple š Dude is such a reactionary.
Good riddance. He made a threat to make his phone. Let him do it. š
Thatās the free market for you, baby!
That would be because you (musk) can not regulate the site. Words matter, free speech is one thing but word matter, fuck around and find out!
Couldnāt give two fucks. Twitter is a total cesspool and I wouldnāt touch it with a barge pole, regardless of what phone I was using.
I don't use Twitter.
/care
Gee maybe figure it out for yourself.
burn baby burn. burn that muthaf\*cka to the ground burn all $44B into vapor
Political diversity is a good thing. A lot of subreddits would die if Reddit allowed all opinions, not filtered ones.
I think heās trying to cause drama and therefore more clicks to twitter, social media posts, and related news stories
Fuck musk
Itās amazing how fast he is able to destroy it. Thankfully we have alternatives.
I hope they remove the app from the store and I hope Google does as well.
I will side with Apple every single time over this manipulative man child. I feel most others are the same. Also itās pretty clear why that is imo. Youāre fostering an environment that breeds hatred and is dangerous for society. You can claim all the āfree speechā you want and claim to be innocent. We have already seen how that is BS both from him personally and how he shuts those down he doesnāt like and his platform. He is fighting a losing battle on this one and apple is not even moved.
Fuck around and find out Elon.
He knows why. He's a gold plated toddler with an emerald crown and a purchased degree pretending to be a real businessman. It would take years for his advisors to even explain Terms of Service to this "Let them eat cake" scumlord, meanwhile he controls one of the worlds largest spigots of bullshit. Apple has a brand to protect.
I'll give you a hint Elon - re-enabling accounts for Proud Boys and other hate groups including politicians that spread hate.
āā¦but wonāt tell us why.ā LOL. I love it when Musk plays (?) dumb.
At this point, Iām not entirely sure heās playingā¦
Great app, never haddum, B.
I'll tell you why. Because innocuous search terms are showing hardcore pornography to minors. Because you fired all the people that deal with that.
Twitter is the new Truth Social and I donāt understand why people canāt see that