not to be overly serious (lol) but if you're mad about these stupid new ""safe mode"" changes on tumblr's iOS app you need to be...
not to be overly serious (lol) but if you’re mad about these stupid new “"safe mode”“ changes on tumblr’s iOS app you need to be directing your energy towards apple because, realistically speaking, there is literally nothing tumblr staff can do about this lol. they’ve either gotta follow apple’s rules or get their app removed from the app store.
but also this is just part of a way bigger and longstanding issue with apple’s walled-garden approach to software where you can only get shit that meets their very specific standards and doesn’t compete with their own proprietary apps AND if users make an in-app transaction apple gets like, a 30% cut or something insane. this is why epic games had that whole thing where they took fortnite off the app store in protest (and which iirc is still part of a big pending legal case that’ll have some serious precedent based on its outcome…..?) so like. this is actually just one tiny battle being waged in a full-scale war of online content and access and censorship and yelling at a bunch of ragtag mobile devs on tumblr’s staff will fix exactly nothing, I promise. so go complain about it to apple!!!!
actually, extremely relevant example because I just saw someone mention discord as an example of an app with nsfw content that apple does allow in their app store (which means clearly tumblr’s just doing this on purpose), but here’s the thing: discord got fucked by apple too!!! on this exact same issue!!!!
earlier this year discord announced that iOS users would no longer be able to access "mature” servers from the discord mobile app due to apple’s content rules. it was a whole thing. apple walked back the restrictions ever so slightly (so you can still visit servers with “incidental” nsfw content as long as you opt in to a certain setting, although I don’t an iphone so idk exactly what that looks like) but you definitely cannot access Big Jack’s Bareback Shack on your iphone anymore and it is unequivocally apple’s fault. discord was gonna get banned entirely on iOS devices if they didn’t comply.
::eyeroll:: Jujitsu them. You’ll probably need some inside actors at Apple and the app developers in question to do it right, make it so their guidelines are openly, undeniably incompatible with the core functionality of Twitter or Grindr or OnlyFans or something else they can’t take the heat of fucking with, the guidelines will change. Remember how the backlash saved OF earlier this year?