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ITT comparing 3rd party api limits to nazi germany
Twitter needs more lebensraum for its own APIs.
That was a good one
Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
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I said the same thing even a few weeks ago, but the momentum for Mastodon is growing rapidly and it's really impressive to see, and Ivory is a very impressive client even in beta. Almost everyone I followed on Twitter is using it now, and I actually prefer the experience. It's like Twitter but without all the bots/spam/hate, at least for now.
What is "almost everyone"? Four people? Using it on what server? Mastadon is more like Discord than Twitter. There is no core server. There is no core experience. It's just an instanced message board.
From your description I’m not sure you understand Mastodon. People who don’t know about it and read your description will get the wrong impression, at least.
You can follow someone on any Mastodon server from your account on any server. It’s not siloed like Discord (which, ironically, actually is a centralized service!) - it’s much more like Twitter than Discord in real use.
There may be no official ‘core experience’, but there is a de-facto ‘core experience’: a stream of posts from people you follow, from any server, in chronological order.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
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There's a truly excellent, open-source Mastodon client called Ice Cubes which hit the App Store yesterday. The very first thing I did was donate the maximum possible IAP.
Annoyingly, seems to be Mastodon-specific - can't OAuth to GotoSocial and flat-out refuses to even consider an Akkoma instance. Let's hope they sort that out soon (since both of them support enough of the MastoAPI that other clients work fine.)
They just added GoToSocial support [0], and they are adding support for more instance types [1]
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#294Won't this hurt Elon in the long run? I was never able to stand the official Twitter app it's filled with ads and irrelevant clutter. I think since moving to Android Tweetbot is one of the few apps I miss from having on my phone. I was still enjoying the Mac version. I guess I will stick to Nitter [0] from now on. [0] - https://nitter.net/
> filled with ads and irrelevant clutter. I always assumed the third party clients just provided a better interface. I didn't realize they circumvented the income stream. If the third party clients were removing the means of monetization, for a company who struggles to profit, then it seems obvious that requiring paid access on its way, regardless of the owner. Twitter can't go forever at a loss. The "surprise" is su…
> Twitter can’t go forever at a loss.
But for nonrecurring expenses, Twitter was profitable before Musk’s buyout both torpedoed ad revenue (when it was announced, before it was even completed) and saddled it with massive expenses to finance the buyout.
The acquisition is literally the only reason it is any concern how long Twitter can operate at a loss.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#295>we are proud to introduce Ivory for Mastodon On the bright side for them, now that they are starting a new "app", they can double dip on those purchase fees.
the app does something new and requires a new codebase. Of course it's going to cost extra
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
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I joined the beta test, it's truly awesome and, by far, the best Mastodon app I've tried. A humble review: https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2023/ivory-mastodon-app-review/
I took a look and don't see any strong reasons not to use and support the official app. Tweetbot was so successful because it was competing against the official client which was (and still is) truly horrible, but I don't see that in this case Ivory has many advantages over the official client.
I used to use the official client prior to Ivory. It's a fine app, but it's a far cry from Ivory's polish and overall quality — I mean, it feels snappier and more “at home” on iOS than Mastodon's official app.
Anyway, Mastodon has no reason to stand against third party apps. Its official app was released only last year, and by no means to threat others nor become the only app in town. Experimentation is good, and Mastodon's third apps are shining right now. There are dozens of them, each one bringing fresh ideas and new concepts.
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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#297If you're not paying attention to Mastodon now, a think to know about Tapbots and Ivory, their new ActivityPub client, is that their TestFlight betas, which they release in batches of a thousand or so at a time, last for just a couple minutes before they're all snapped up; there seems to be pretty huge demand for it. With a decent client (I've bounced around a couple of them so far), even in a beta state, the experie…
When is the Ivory iOS app scheduled to come out?
In January itself. One of the devs said
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#298If you're not paying attention to Mastodon now, a think to know about Tapbots and Ivory, their new ActivityPub client, is that their TestFlight betas, which they release in batches of a thousand or so at a time, last for just a couple minutes before they're all snapped up; there seems to be pretty huge demand for it. With a decent client (I've bounced around a couple of them so far), even in a beta state, the experie…
Yeah back when Elon bought the place and everyone was talking about moving to Mastodon I was dismissive.
Wasn't expecting Twitter to start switching off systems like a ship in Star Trek trying to conserve energy for life support..
Looking forward to Tapbots new client. Don't really care what's powering the backend as it turns out, it just needs to stay working.
Nice work Mastodon and the rest of the federation, I'll be looking into server options over the weekend. Gotta have the vanity domain.
Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
#299The official statement is complete bullshit. On Jan 17th Twitter said: "Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working." Then on Jan 19th, they updated their ToS: https://i.imgur.com/YZn7PJY.jpg It's not enough that you need to immediately be on the right side of any ToS changes -- now you get punished for edits that haven't yet been made!
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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023
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There are also lots of other interesting clients not from Tapbots. If losing Tweetbot was enough to make you look at Mastodon, keep that open mind and look at all the interesting clients out there.
Ice Cubes is another great example. Very exciting times! https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp
(Unfortunately) related: they were rejected initially: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34444514
Good news: It looks like that's since been resolved shortly after Gruber's post. https://mastodon.social/@icecubesapp@mastodon.cloud/10971756...