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If rejecting apps that can lead to adult content (but not necessarily the main focus) seems to be the norm, how do reddit apps get around it?

neltnerb 5y ago
The article also mentioned twitter and instagram. All the apps that let you look at user generated content.
- mintplant 5y ago
  Instagram forbids NSFW content platform-wide.
  - cosmotic 5y ago
    Twitter doesn't.
    - feupan 5y ago
      Can Apple ban Twitter without serious backlash?
      - DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
        They could have done what Apple did with Telegram and only allow the iOS app to access SFW groups (or at least not known NSFW groups), while Android users have all the fun.
      - cosmotic 5y ago
        They banned Epic Games store, which seems similarly high profile.
  - neltnerb 5y ago
    So does Tumblr, the way the article put it was that any site with user generated content would inevitably have awful things posted that get missed and might get randomly discovered by the randomly assigned reviewer's search and judge by the random reviewer's standards loosely based on some hidden guideline. I don't know about these statistics, but Tumblr is definitely NSFW-only, that was the whole deal back in 2018 that got everyone angry at them. There were some other minor differences about defaults suggested in the article as well, it didn't seem especially conspiratorial. Of course, tolerating twitter due to its size and ability to single handedly generate PR doesn't seem that conspiratorial to me. I'd be kind of surprised if that wasn't a big factor in double and quadruple checking the results before taking action instead of the reverse.
  - heavyset_go 5y ago
    Literal brothels run Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts and the content definitely isn't safe for work.
numpad0 5y ago
New accounts created on iOS is disallowed NSFW content and it has to be explicitly enabled from browsers
- noahtallen 5y ago
  Just double checked — it seems there is a “allow NSFW” content switch in the iOS system settings. Reddit on iOS gives you a link into the system settings app when you search for NSFW content. But it does appear to be disabled by default in anonymous browsing mode anyways.
AnthonyMouse 5y ago
The article has some speculation about this. A combination of Apple not wanting to ban larger apps like that, and larger companies having more staff to resubmit the app a thousand times to get through the thousand arbitrary rejections.
- deleted 5y ago
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- rootusrootus 5y ago
  IIRC the most popular Reddit app on iOS is Apollo, which is just a solo developer.
  - willio58 5y ago
    I doubt this, Reddit has had their own app for years now and every Reddit mobile page on the web nags you to download it
    - vorpalhex 5y ago
      The official reddit app is garbage. Apollo is a genuinely good app and people recommend it heavily on reddit itself. Spamming users is not always a good tactic.
    - jetsetgo 5y ago

neltnerb 5y ago

The article also mentioned twitter and instagram. All the apps that let you look at user generated content.

mintplant 5y ago
Instagram forbids NSFW content platform-wide.
- cosmotic 5y ago
  Twitter doesn't.
  - feupan 5y ago
    Can Apple ban Twitter without serious backlash?
    - DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
      They could have done what Apple did with Telegram and only allow the iOS app to access SFW groups (or at least not known NSFW groups), while Android users have all the fun.
    - cosmotic 5y ago
      They banned Epic Games store, which seems similarly high profile.
- neltnerb 5y ago
  So does Tumblr, the way the article put it was that any site with user generated content would inevitably have awful things posted that get missed and might get randomly discovered by the randomly assigned reviewer's search and judge by the random reviewer's standards loosely based on some hidden guideline. I don't know about these statistics, but Tumblr is definitely NSFW-only, that was the whole deal back in 2018 that got everyone angry at them. There were some other minor differences about defaults suggested in the article as well, it didn't seem especially conspiratorial. Of course, tolerating twitter due to its size and ability to single handedly generate PR doesn't seem that conspiratorial to me. I'd be kind of surprised if that wasn't a big factor in double and quadruple checking the results before taking action instead of the reverse.
- heavyset_go 5y ago
  Literal brothels run Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts and the content definitely isn't safe for work.

numpad0 5y ago

New accounts created on iOS is disallowed NSFW content and it has to be explicitly enabled from browsers

noahtallen 5y ago
Just double checked — it seems there is a “allow NSFW” content switch in the iOS system settings. Reddit on iOS gives you a link into the system settings app when you search for NSFW content. But it does appear to be disabled by default in anonymous browsing mode anyways.

AnthonyMouse 5y ago

The article has some speculation about this. A combination of Apple not wanting to ban larger apps like that, and larger companies having more staff to resubmit the app a thousand times to get through the thousand arbitrary rejections.

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rootusrootus 5y ago
IIRC the most popular Reddit app on iOS is Apollo, which is just a solo developer.
- willio58 5y ago
  I doubt this, Reddit has had their own app for years now and every Reddit mobile page on the web nags you to download it
  - vorpalhex 5y ago
    The official reddit app is garbage. Apollo is a genuinely good app and people recommend it heavily on reddit itself. Spamming users is not always a good tactic.
  - jetsetgo 5y ago