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But that's Twitter/X labor, not the App Store labor, the App Store should ideally be a glorified S3.

• mckn1ght 3y ago
  Strong "dropbox is just rsync" HN vibes right here. Even if it were just "glorified" (whatever that means to you) S3, it would take labor resources to maintain. But it's also much more than that, it's a social service on top of the technical details that tries to maintain a strong security layer.
  • mablopoule 3y ago
    But that's the thing: I don't want this "social service", at all. The labor resources would ideally be reduced by only doing hosting, and to check if the deployed app doesn't contains a malware, not on whether the app follows the guidelines created by some assholes in California. By example, I'm completely creeped by Apple's relations to pornography, and how that impact apps such as Grindr. I'm creeped by the article's suggestion that Apple may remove the Twitter app "to protect" it's user from seeing Alex Jones content. In the same way, I wouldn't want my chinese-made phone to "protect" me from political opinion unsavory to peoples in Beijing. That is why I really prefer the web vision of just deploying stuff on a domain you own, with a server you rent, and importantly no such thing as a whitelist of accepted domains curated by the browser maintainers. Of course even then there are limits to the kind of thing you can put in there, but nowhere near as much as those done on App stores. I'm french, and despite both being western countries, there's enough cultural differences between France and the US to make me really despise any attempt at content control by platforms who I believe should stay culturally neutral; instead I just see people having accepted this level of cultural influence as being normal, even beneficial.