Gregory's ServerGoogle: Hello, for reasons we won't explain you can no longer submit updates to your app to the Playstore until you make changes to it we won't specify. We will send you the same mail again if you appeal but have fun trying regardless.
Also Google, a few days later: We feel like we haven't wasted enough of your time yet, please answer these questions about your recent app suspension, did you think it was as funny as we did?
Conny Duck
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Conny Duck
I just want to publish the app I develop for free in my freetime and I have absolutely zero energy to deal with this shit but because of Googles monopoly I have to. 
Ben Lubar (any pronouns)
@ConnyDuck two different departments that don't talk to each other each developed half of that sentence 
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@ConnyDuck Do you know, what percentage of your users are coming from GPlay?
Conny Duck
@MagicLike about 40%. Thats a lot and also Google Play has crash reporting that I don't get anywhere else, without it app quality would drop significantly.
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@ConnyDuck Maybe - for the other 60 % you could use an FOSS reporting tool to get also some reports from them 
Conny Duck
Here is the rule they say Tusky violates. Yes Tusky shows "User generated content" but I don't have any control over it. There are also no terms of use, why would Tusky have terms of use, it makes no sense.
Conny Duck
So I guess could invent some stupid terms of use and slap them onto the startpage, which would annoy all users but probably allow me to publish updates again.
Conny Duck
The majority of users come from F-Droid, but Google Play has crash reporting so dropping it would severely impact app quality.
Conny Duck
The next Tusky release is almost done and it has amazing improvements but it has to wait until this situation is resolved.
peter hessler @openbsd
@ConnyDuck if a stupid click-through gets google off your back, then a stupid click-through we shall click. :flan_q:
benni
@ConnyDuck du könntest auch einfach behaupten, dass tusky gar keinen user generated content anzeigt sondern nur instanz-generated content. chrome hat schließlich auch keine terms of use und mehr user generated content als tusky zeigt das auch nich an. das ist doch offensichtlich das logik-level auf dem die operieren.
Conny Duck
@benni Google Chrome hat sogar ziemlich lange Terms. Und eigentlich hab ich ihnen das schon im ersten Appeal erklärt, glaub einen zweiten krieg ich nicht.  
Moana Rijndael 🍍🍕
@ConnyDuck can you fetch instance-local ToS and show it? I guess it must be available via api 
FediThing
Really sorry to hear you're going through this :( Please let the rest of us know if we can help. 
Mergan
@ConnyDuck I've set a reminder to google the next sentence in a few days :cat_si:
Is this some sort of easter egg? :acat_coming:
🎅Wasted Santa🍺
@ConnyDuck can you do some FOSS reporting tool and yank the play store app completely? It may come to that considering its google we are talking about. That or abandon tusky |
@ConnyDuck :picardfacepalm: