If this were actually a violation of the ToS you'd have to say goodbye to most apps with user generated content, because they work the same way (including lemmy). To my reading the Apple ToS doesn't even require that users can mute each other, just that the devs can block users to moderate the platform.
Apple and Google require social media apps to have block functions
If this were actually a violation of the ToS you'd have to say goodbye to most apps with user generated content, because they work the same way (including lemmy). To my reading the Apple ToS doesn't even require that users can mute each other, just that the devs can block users to moderate the platform.
Regulations don't have to apply to sufficiently rich and narcissistic cishet white men and their whims.