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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by nextstep on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:30AM (#31808576)
How did Twitter avoid this same fate? Twitter has an iOS app (sort of their main interface nowadays) and they have tons of adult content.

Is Twitter powerful enough to stand up to Apple and Tumblr was not?

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by lrae on Monday June 20, 2022 @06:38AM (#31808645)
NSFW content is disabled by default in the iOS app and you can only enable it via web iirc.

No idea though if Tumblr had the same option back then.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by Mindwipe on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:34AM (#31809057)
It did. Apple repeatedly said that wasn't sufficient.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by steego on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:40PM (#31813944)
You’re missing something. Both Twitter and Reddit have apps which allow access to NSFW content.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by Mindwipe on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:40AM (#31821718)
I'm not, Apple are just extremely inconsistent with the policy.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by melior on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:25AM (#31824286)
Twitter had better resources to prevent NSFW mishaps from creeping into your feed.

In 2017, Twitter had dedicated ML resources driving their recommendation engine + human moderators on fallback duty. You need to explicitly opt-in via web app before you can see NSFW using their app.

In comparison, Tumblr struggled with NSFW content as they relied heavily on users to police content.

Without opting-in, pornograhic posts regularly bled into standard content. With the demographics, CSAM content quickly started to do the same.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by Mindwipe on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:34AM (#31809054)
Because the App Store review team is capricious and contradictory.

We've also seen third party Reddit app developers not allowed to feature content that the main Reddit app is despite toggles, and Discord not allowed to feature content that Twitter is.

The policy is badly written and not even Apple's own reviewers understand it, and they overreact to complaints from religious groups.

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