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Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by kstrauser »

ipozgaj wrote: post #279
rpgbr wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The official app makes it awkward to read the local timeline, which is where the real fun is on smaller instances.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by kstrauser »

joezydeco wrote: post #181
mttjj wrote: post #13

Tweetbot was the only way I interacted with Twitter for years. I refuse to use the website and I refuse to download Twitter's app. When it was finally revealed that this move was intentional I deleted my Twitter account. I was mocked in high school for having a Twitter account (2008) and not a Facebook account. I remember "tweeting" from my flip/dumb-phone. I still don't have Facebook. I don't regret being on Twitter…

100% concur, but don't delete your account. Don't let someone else take the username. Delete your tweets and wipe your profile, but let it sit dormant. Forever.

I have no idea if I still have my Myspace, Tribe.net, etc. accounts. Someone else might’ve taken them over by now for all I know and for all I care.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by Touche »

alixanderwang wrote: post #197

Why are they having the funeral less than 2 weeks after a "suspension" of the API, after 10+ years of work? Twitter under the new management is making rash decisions but also has been reversing many. I still have Tweetbot app on my phone in hopes that it's temporary. Has there been anything definitive to say that won't be the case?

If they leave the app up people will start requesting refunds which could kill the company.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by kstrauser »

seydor wrote: post #111
chc4 wrote: post #90

I've been on twitter since 2009 and have 100k+ tweet. Since they've killed all third-party clients I've basically stopped using twitter, and have no intention of using the (bad) official client. Good job Elon!

to all the people who claim this, i wish there was a RemindMe! feature to check back in a few months People who have invested years of their lives writing thousands of tweets aren't giving up investments so easily. This is like real life investments or relationships, it takes a lot to break them

I actively used my account since 2007, and I’ve completely deleted it. It’s ruined and I want nothing to do with it anymore.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by amatecha »

Sunspark wrote: post #248
joezydeco wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% concur, but don't delete your account. Don't let someone else take the username. Delete your tweets and wipe your profile, but let it sit dormant. Forever.

It won't be forever. I remember Musk saying awhile back that they were going to flush inactive accounts at some point. I agree with this. Why should a username remain reserved if it hasn't been logged into for years?

probably because my username is my first initial and my last name, and I don't really want someone impersonating me on a platform that I've used as a key social media presence since 2007?

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by gfodor »

Klonoar wrote: post #347
gfodor wrote: post #246

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What I said is definitely true - supporting that old version isn’t free - it needs to be maintained and all new features need to not inadvertently break it. I’m not saying this was necessarily a good move, but the upside to killing an API is you are able to cut any need to support any of it, including old versions.

The APIs for Twitter that they're cutting off aren't being cut off for other uses, though. This clearly isn't a maintenance issue.

I can't parse what you wrote - shutting down any API relieves some maintenence burden.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by jacobbudin »

Klonoar wrote: post #342
corobo wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

As an FYI you can have the "vanity domain" if you just use the webfinger protocol with your own custom domain. Don't necessarily need to self-host it.

Are you sure? I'm a Mastodon newbie, but the docs suggest neither the "local domain" nor the "web domain" can be changed once set:

> As with LOCAL_DOMAIN, WEB_DOMAIN cannot be safely changed once set, as this will confuse remote servers that knew of your previous settings and may break communication with them or make it unreliable.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#local_domain

They also recommend a "301 Moved Permanently" implementation.

Re: Tweetbot. April 2011 – January 2023

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Post by wlonkly »

prvc wrote: post #285

>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.

Both Tweetbot and Ivory are based on recurring subscriptions. Now I don't love the subscription model, but if users are no longer paying for Tweetbot and some subset of them are paying for Ivory instead, that's no double dip.
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