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We can't seem to be able to login from the website, it requires an Apple account? The UI might not be showing up properly.
by addedGone 5mo ago
We can't seem to be able to login from the website, it requires an Apple account? The UI might not be showing up properly.
- altairprime 5mo agoIt’s app-only, right?
- sikozu 5mo agoiOS only unfortunately. Big shame.
- altairprime 5mo agoNot for the operators, I expect. If they flip a couple bits in the webserver I think they can lock the API down to require a device attestation, which would inhibit much of the API’s attack surface from being exploitable without a physical device that can afford to be console-banned (but I haven’t done my research to prove that yet, so grain of feasibility salt). Certainly in this day and age there is no desire to be “search engine optimized” by anyone using a social network for IRL friends, so they lose nothing by lacking a website. And there’s lots of small but nice services that are or have been iOS only (and a couple big ones that collapsed once they opened to other platforms). They’re explicitly selecting against the network effect already in favor of a nice experience, so it’s not like it matters if it grows more slowly. Are there drawbacks you see besides “requires an iOS device” that I haven’t considered?
- addedGone 5mo agothere is the fact that you just can't have your friends using it?
- altairprime 5mo agoMy friends would rather not be scraped and harvested and indexed, which tends to make them uninterested in social network websites and offers a certain degree of pressure against Android as well. Yours may differ.