For context: Tusky is a lightweight client for Mastodon, a free and open-source social network server.
Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
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Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#62If they ban a client for the content it can access, why don't they ban web browsers entirely ? Google Chrome allows access to illegal and hateful content too.
It's just a matter of time
Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#63If they ban a client for the content it can access, why don't they ban web browsers entirely ? Google Chrome allows access to illegal and hateful content too.
For sure the Youtube app won't be banned even if illegal stuff might be posted there.
Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
f-droid banned Gab. So they cannot be trusted to run an impartial service.
Not tolerating xenophobia, racism and bigots in general is a big point for a lot of people. The paradox of tolerance is something that many people should consider.
The problem isn't with the not tolerating, it's with the pushing for others not to tolerate. Freedom requires choice.
Our problem is that we've built almost our entire ecosystem on systems where a single actor's intolerance can deny millions of people access to a product. This seemed like a good idea at the time. Apparently what it comes down to is the entire economy needs to be duplicated? Banks, payment providers, app stores, content delivery networks, web hosting, all the way to operating systems. I didn't realize that it would take that much to get the right to access any app or social network I want to? But apparently that's where the so-called paradox of tolerance has led us.
Seems we should have seen this coming. A certain xkcd about infrastructures comes to mind. Oh well. Since true decentralization is possible, it's just a matter of time in the end.
Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#65It should be clear by now that Google being the internet is not a net positive.
Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#66Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#67Tusky is still installed on my phone, though, so I guess Google hasn't decided to yank it off existing devices yet.
Do they even have the capacity to do that? It would be quite irksome here, but I'd see it being useful in the case of apps that are found to contain malware.
Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#68If they ban a client for the content it can access, why don't they ban web browsers entirely ? Google Chrome allows access to illegal and hateful content too.
It's just a matter of time
They will never bann chrome, but I am sure they wills start banning lesser known browsers that are not Chrome, Edge, and Firefox...
Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#69Is there someone curating a list of actual bad apps that haven't been banned from Google Play Store?
To begin with, Google Play Store is the baddest of all. No need to list other particular apps accessible from therein.
Re: Tusky has been removed from the Play Store
#70Sadly I am quite sure my app [1] will eventually be removed from the play store as well if it ever becomes popular with the "wrong crowd". All it does is provide a way to connect to peertube (also fediverse like Mastodon) instances and watch videos. Which instance you follow is up to you not me. Content is moderated by the peertube instance owners not me and I am not going to bother adding an instance blacklist for s…
I wonder if these problems could be fixed by showing only a list of family safe instances by default, but allow adding custom urls somewhere in the settings. Don't show a directory of instances in your app. This way casual app reviewers would see the family safe content, and you wouldn't have to block anything. Or would Google complain about that too?
The default instance is mine and I follow almost no one, trying to keep that "family safe". But it looks like I need to also make sure it's "politically safe". The instance list is the official list provided by Peertube. I believe the goal is to make that list decentralised and self-filling as it should be. The NSFW filter is on per default.
BTW, Google blocked an update not long ago because of a typo in my description where a word was repeated...