The app only gets you there. Picture Twitter just being another "Instance" or Server you'd connect to. Ivory lets you connect to all of the other ones that aren't the "Twitter Instance".
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Tweetbot Developer Tapbots Launches 'Ivory' App for Mastodon
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Well, you joined the wrong server, or posted something wrong?!
This post is about a client app, not the service.
Im sure you have been corrected earlier but mastadon is a federated service. Each one has its own rules and moderators totally independent. You can start one just for yourself and your friends, and you can all use the tweetbot client app (well, ivory). Then you can ban yourself and post about it here.
Yeah because having 150 mil people in one room all screaming at each other is better...
Which is why I (regretfully) spend time here on MacRumors...
Y'all challenge me on the daily.
yet do we all NEED yet another 'space' to follow developers on?
IG, FaceBook, Patreon, Twitter, Youtube, etc etc. It's getting a bit much is it not?
Therein lies the ISSUE I've had with Tweetbot.
IF you upgraded iOS, and even restored from iCloud seemed that you had to repurchase an updated Tweetbot client that you previously paid for less than a year earlier. I noticed this years ago and said nope.
Do developers REALLY need to be paid more than they're already getting (typically $100K US)? That said with huge layoffs from Amazon, Microsoft yet to spin up yet again after November '22's layoff round maybe they do need a few cups of coffee while working remote on a Caribbean beach /s
lol kinda sounds like those in office in any scale in any room. At least the voices get to be spoken even if what is said may not be desirable at you least you know whom is saying what and THAT it has been said. Silence can be just as deadly a pen not used on paper as a sword used on a battlefield.
Edit: or better put 'The devil you know vs The devil you don't'
aka The greatest trick the devil ever played was making people think he never existed.
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It's a good thing. At least for the time being, Mastodon isn't dominated by political extremists. I am getting far greater engagement and higher percentage of quality contents.
Open-plan office seems to be common in the US.
Well, no thanks, I’m not a cow, I need and want my space and privacy.
This is popular though. People don’t want to hear someone else’s opinion. They just want to have their own opinion confirmed. It’s human nature and not related to any political or social group.
I haven’t messed with mastodon because it just seems like more trouble than it’s worth. I don’t really go on Twitter that much other than just to follow a few Apple people.
As every other new social media platform - it will be popular the first 3 months then rapidly decline in use until people forget it existed.
There was something about Tweetbot that I never liked, but what was it? Something about the UI or how they handled tweets... hmmm.
I've signed up with Mastodon, and it's just as confusing to me as Twitter was in the beginning. Once I get the grasp of it, I'm sure it will be great. But I don't see companies jumping on board with it like they have with Twitter. I use Twitter to engage with companies, and less to socialize.
I've signed up with Mastodon, and it's just as confusing to me as Twitter was in the beginning. Once I get the grasp of it, I'm sure it will be great. But I don't see companies jumping on board with it like they have with Twitter. I use Twitter to engage with companies, and less to socialize.
Well, if you have a more weighted interest like e.g Gamedev, Sports, etc. you can join a server focused on that topic, but this doesn’t mean you can’t follow other topics and users from other servers.
Generic important news should be read from different sources anyway, and not just from the sites offered by Twitter & Co. Anybody doing it differently is prone to live in a bubble.
lol, indie third-party app devs are not devs working for a Big Tech company. they’re on their own unless they have another product generating a ton of revenue (like Epic licensing one of the most-used game engines and running a massive online video game, and yet they’ve ironically become the symbol of b*tching about the 70/30 cut). otherwise, the revenue from the app they make is what they’re living on—plain and simple.
What makes Ivory so much better than something like Ice Cubes? It’s another subscription vs free (or tip the guy if you’re nice). I’m thinking there’s a little hero worship going on here just because it’s tapbots. I tried both, and don’t see a lot of difference for the money.
It went darker here a few years ago. This is why every other post has a political warning and only lets people with more than 100 posts comment... Luckily there still enough helpful people to make it worth while.
1) are you one of those people who thinks this was whipped up in a few days after their Twitter app got banned?
2) do you have any idea the amount of work that actually goes into developing an app that isn’t utter s—t?
it went dark once the Dark Ages of MacBooks happened, if I recall. but uhh, then there’s this, my favorite thing to refer to from 20+ years ago:
But how many of these are actually active accounts, even Musk never got that info.
I’ve just subscribed to Ivory this morning, Tapbots has done a great job on the app, it looks fantastic. Having tried several apps for Mastodon now none would do all I was looking for, finally this has.
Developers are only making $100k?! Heck yes they need to make more than $100k/year. That’s not a lot of money these days.
It’ll probably get there before long. They’ve been rushing to finish the iOS version since Elon pulled the plug on all third party Twitter apps, but Ivory has been in beta for a long time.
True. I was just going by bare minimum I read a few short years back for a junior iOS app dev in Canada. I'm sure I'm highly mistaken.