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Tweetbot Developer Tapbots Launches 'Ivory' App for Mastodon
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lol well good luck to them.. maybe if they tried to play nice with twitter 2 they could have stayed relevant in some way but NOBODY is gonna use this nonsense
With today's news of the reinstatement of certain accounts, my Twitter accounts have been deactivated. Sad day – I've been on Twitter since 2008. (I was in high school!)
It's the first place I went when anything happened in the world and I wanted more info and quick. I guess Reddit will fulfill that need now? Just not the same.
That being said, hit me up at fullbug5150@mastodon.social
Excited for Ivory.
It's the first place I went when anything happened in the world and I wanted more info and quick. I guess Reddit will fulfill that need now? Just not the same.
That being said, hit me up at fullbug5150@mastodon.social
Excited for Ivory.
So it’s just a Twitter clone. But people get mad when Tiktok or Snapchat get clones
Not really into Mastodon but I'm curious to see how Bluesky or Nostr (not even sure what that is yet) pans out. I can see them making Bluesky easy to use, but Nostr seems confusing and in very early stages of use, and I've heard Mastodon is a bit confusing and I don't see the branding taking it far as of yet.
One thing is for sure tho, I've been using Twitter for over 10 years and it's never felt so dull, both for me and everyone I've followed.
One thing is for sure tho, I've been using Twitter for over 10 years and it's never felt so dull, both for me and everyone I've followed.
Yea this sounds similar to Reddit. Some subreddits have weird mods. Some Orville people were getting banned left and right unecessarily. So they made their own Subreddit, and most fled there.
Insane pricing for devs not delivering any regular updates for apps like Tweetbot, Pastebot, Calcbot and the just disappeared Weightbot.
Get Mona from the Spring app insread and with macOS support too
Get Mona from the Spring app insread and with macOS support too
I'm using Mastodon for following tech people for now. I don't know how I'll use it in the future, but a lot of that depends on who joins the service.
I used to use TweetBot and it was excellent. Sucks that it had to go, and without any warning. But when you are building an entire app on the back of a platform that isn’t yours at all, it can happen unfortunately.
I tried Mastodon for a bit, even had my own instance (wow do those hog data for every person you follow, not efficient at all) but it’s just not useful for me. Happy some internet people found a platform and now a polished app they can use with it.
Like others above have mentioned, all of these networks will end up like MySpace and Friendster. Doesn’t matter how popular they have been or will be. It’s just inevitable. Enjoy what you enjoy to use today, much better than complaining about who owns what, and why, etc.
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I tried Mastodon for a bit, even had my own instance (wow do those hog data for every person you follow, not efficient at all) but it’s just not useful for me. Happy some internet people found a platform and now a polished app they can use with it.
Like others above have mentioned, all of these networks will end up like MySpace and Friendster. Doesn’t matter how popular they have been or will be. It’s just inevitable. Enjoy what you enjoy to use today, much better than complaining about who owns what, and why, etc.
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Well, better be part of 1.8M users than of 165M users with most of them being scumbags and with one of them as their leader, heh. I hope Mastodon stays small.
Sounds like Reddit. The land of moderators with complexes.
It is astounding how entitled some individuals are when it comes to apps.
While many are supportive and recognise talented developers who deserve support, there are those who will lash out, insult, and berate those who simply want to earn a living through their full-time jobs creating, designing, and maintaining these apps by charging a minimal annual fee equivalent to a few cups of coffee.
While many are supportive and recognise talented developers who deserve support, there are those who will lash out, insult, and berate those who simply want to earn a living through their full-time jobs creating, designing, and maintaining these apps by charging a minimal annual fee equivalent to a few cups of coffee.
Maybe learn a little before passing judgement? Ivory has been in beta for many months, and leverages a lot of Tapbots’ existing Tweetbot code, and they were getting close to release anyway - the beta testers were quite happy with it. When Elon recently cut off all other Twitter apps with zero notice - his latest in a long series of dick moves - the Tapbots developers redoubled their efforts to get Ivory out the door ASAP.
Perhaps. I’m happily a member of a bunch of subreddits. Most of them are quite civilized - often more so than MacRumors.
Or their upcoming VR/AR friends with goggles to escape reality more effectively...
The app even requires you to subscribe just to post a message, fast pass on that. Metatext works fine.
I mean, Twitter killed off ALL third party apps. Playing nice had nothing to do with any of it.
Nope that’s not true!
The downside of subscriptions is, usually the software(which was already payed multiple times) stops working once you cancel the subscription. That’s why I dislike subscriptions.
While when you buy software and buy their updates, the software continues to work as long nothing special changes.
There are a few subscription types that feature freezes and continues to work if you cancel it, but most subscriptions don’t do this, because it’s more convenient to continue leeching users by adding minor improvements.
Well, and if Developers like e.g. Affinity manages to survive, be successful, and sell their “very complex” software normally without subscriptions, others should be able, too.
I wonder how all these devs survived before Apple started to push subscriptions, they must have been all living on skid row.
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I’ve yet to experience this, but as I said, I’m only following tech sites, developers, that kind of thing. Not too much wild activity among that group
And the beauty is when you find an overbearing mod, Unjoin and find another. And a lot of the time there is another someone made who also didn't like that mod, and people followed
I haven’t participated in the MR forums for years and I don’t remember it being as openly hostile as it is now. Not everyone, of course.
crazy, almost like developers should build a finished product and sell other versions of said product letting the user decide if it’s worth upgrading.
You know like how it’s always been done in the past.
There is nothing “ongoing” this isn’t like Dropbox or a streaming platform. It’s an app with an api to the service. If there are worthy updates I’d pay. But subscription for a tweet app? Get out of here.