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Sadly I am quite sure my app [1] will eventually be removed from the play store as well if it ever becomes popular with the "wrong crowd". All it does is provid

Sadly I am quite sure my app [1] will eventually be removed from the play store as well if it ever becomes popular with the "wrong crowd". All it does is provide a way to connect to peertube (also fediverse like Mastodon) instances and watch videos. Which instance you follow is up to you not me. Content is moderated by the peertube instance owners not me and I am not going to bother adding an instance blacklist for something I don't make any money from. Especially since you can reach any instance just using chrome. [1] https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android

yarcob 6y ago
I wonder if these problems could be fixed by showing only a list of family safe instances by default, but allow adding custom urls somewhere in the settings. Don't show a directory of instances in your app. This way casual app reviewers would see the family safe content, and you wouldn't have to block anything. Or would Google complain about that too?
- sschueller 6y ago
  The default instance is mine and I follow almost no one, trying to keep that "family safe". But it looks like I need to also make sure it's "politically safe". The instance list is the official list provided by Peertube. I believe the goal is to make that list decentralised and self-filling as it should be. The NSFW filter is on per default. BTW, Google blocked an update not long ago because of a typo in my description where a word was repeated...
  - judge2020 6y ago
    'family safe' and 'politically safe' aren't much different in the fact that they're arbitrary filters on what is shown in the app by default. Start out with just a url box for 'connect to a PeerTube instance' and you don't have to worry about either.
    - usa5ever 6y ago
      I disagree, trans ideology is politically safe but isn't family safe. It's politically fine to chemically castrate confused homosexual children but I'm not going along with it

yarcob 6y ago

I wonder if these problems could be fixed by showing only a list of family safe instances by default, but allow adding custom urls somewhere in the settings. Don't show a directory of instances in your app. This way casual app reviewers would see the family safe content, and you wouldn't have to block anything. Or would Google complain about that too?

sschueller 6y ago
The default instance is mine and I follow almost no one, trying to keep that "family safe". But it looks like I need to also make sure it's "politically safe". The instance list is the official list provided by Peertube. I believe the goal is to make that list decentralised and self-filling as it should be. The NSFW filter is on per default. BTW, Google blocked an update not long ago because of a typo in my description where a word was repeated...
- judge2020 6y ago
  'family safe' and 'politically safe' aren't much different in the fact that they're arbitrary filters on what is shown in the app by default. Start out with just a url box for 'connect to a PeerTube instance' and you don't have to worry about either.
  - usa5ever 6y ago
    I disagree, trans ideology is politically safe but isn't family safe. It's politically fine to chemically castrate confused homosexual children but I'm not going along with it