• @[email protected]M
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      It will be subject to Apple’s code of conduct. They will have to remove racist material or get removed from the app store.

      If only their own app gets taken down, then that’s an absolute win. But, Apple/Google/etc could very well see this as an excuse to take down general purpose Mastodon clients as well, saying “well one of the biggest instances is Trump’s and we don’t want to have something that can easily connect to it!” In the end, it doesn’t actually matter if they don’t have a leg to stand on since they have absolute control over their stores. Google already removed the official Mastodon app from the play store for several days without even giving a clear reason last year.

      • EvanM
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        32 years ago

        Wait till

        this instance is blocked from use in masclient

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          Same thing that happened with Gab, some clients will implement a clientside block and some won’t. IMO it’s pointless to do a clientside block, I guess you could work around it by making a DNS redirection or something.

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            22 years ago

            It is so that my client is not banned from appstore, I don’t think apple is going to say

            haha we set up a DNS redirection and bypassed your blocking so bann

            • m-p{3}
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              12 years ago

              Imagined if we lived in a world where Apple could tell Mozilla or Google that their web browser was delisted from the App Store because they don’t blacklist some domain name.

              I know where you’re coming from and I understand why, it’s just that blocking specific hostnames from an app that is simply handling a protocol seems an overreach.

              • EvanM
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                22 years ago

                See the thing is is that apple reviewers know how a web browser works (probably) but the fed? not so sure. To them it’s probably just a twitter clone.

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              32 years ago

              I actually like web apps over app apps, mainly because I can close them and not worry about them running in the background and doing stuff with my phone that I don’t want it doing.

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      And they probably won’t publish their own app to avoid that possibility, simply guiding their users towards a Mastodon-compatible client.