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Tweetbot Maker Tapbots Working on 'Ivory' Mastodon App
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This is great news! Distributed social networking is great technology which works today and the logical evolution of social networking. The idea of having one giant website controlled by a single entity that everyone in the world is supposed to use makes absolutely no sense at all.
Mastodon is a mess. Just a bunch unruly ex-Twitter users running their own servers thinking they are God. No way
A lot of people want to be bigots on the internet and feel accepted for it rather than as the social outcasts they are. And they'll let anyone into their network that advances that goal. That's really all there is to it. But ruining Twitter won't get them invited back to Thanksgiving anymore than ruining Gab or 4chan did.
TweetBot, you could put yourself ahead of other "Mastodon clients" if you don't strictly limit yourself to Mastodon features and support features that non-Mastodon Fediverse front-ends support, such as quote-reposting (both displaying them and actually doing them).
(And also not calling posts "toots" and so on, FFS.)
(And also not calling posts "toots" and so on, FFS.)
I think people are giving this dislikes cause they think it is a bad joke I made up. It isn't. This is really happening there.
I can tell from the attitude of proud Mastodon users just what I could expect to find there.
I've used Tweetbot for years on both iOS and Mac OS. I don't have to see any ads from Twitter, and the interface is much cleaner than the official Twitter app. On the few occasions where I've discovered a software glitch, Tapbots has been very responsive and I'm happy to pay for a reasonably priced subscription to support them.
I don't like "Ivory" as the name of this new Mastodon app. The ivory trade has decimated the elephant population.
I don't like "Ivory" as the name of this new Mastodon app. The ivory trade has decimated the elephant population.
I am sure the Mastodon users will be very vocal about the name being problematic. It is hilarious to watch them eat their own.
MacRumors, I can promise with full confidence and I believe I speak for all of my fellow forum users here that absolutely none of us care about Mastodon.
I think this is a pretty common experience and people just want simplicity and it’s holding Mastodon back.
That said, I don’t think the answer is another privately run, proprietary service. The funny part is I think Jack Dorsey is right that something like Twitter should be a public protocol just like email.
That’s essentially what Mastodon is though with ActivityPub.
But until someone comes along and makes the experience as conceptually smooth and simple as creating an email account it’s gonna languish.
I think someone like TapBots could make a big difference there.
Especially if they were to launch their own server that offered extra features/functionality and supported it with a nominal subscription fee and defaulted to that. Make the onboarding process easier for the mainstream.
They could still give users the option to choose a different third-party server and use the app for free but maybe don’t put it front and center, make it a power user option for those in the know.
Exactly, Twitter has had a hostile relationship with app developers long before Elon was even on Twitter.
The irony is that email has come to be dominated by a few companies because it’s not easy to actually set up your own email either. And email federation itself is still a clunky mess that works most reliably when sticking with the major vendors.
People that are mad about this for ideological reasons are vastly overstating the challenges of using the Fediverse. Self-hosting will always require some effort, but nobody is forcing you to self host anyways... Unless the kind of content you're posting is extreme.
Great contribution to the topic.
For more posts like that one, sign up for Mastodon where I'm sure it is full of them.
One singular hive mind blocking out any other opinion. Paradise for them.
And calling them nerds was an interesting choice of "insult".
It’s new and adjusting to a massive influx of users, but it’s very promising. The best part is it’s open source so it can never be purchased at the whim of a weird billionaire
Amazing news!
Very excited about this as a long long time Tweetbot customer and now Mastodon user
Very excited about this as a long long time Tweetbot customer and now Mastodon user
I don't blame them for perhaps tapping the breaks there
The twitter future is unclear and I wouldn't want to touch anything right now that works with APIs, for fear it will break and not get fixed.
Also -- see below
Third party Twitter Apps that don't show ADs .... their days probably are numbered
Mastodon has been really awesome for me -- Super refreshing.
It's been like the Twitter I remember upon joining in the late 2000s
Great people, great interactions, no crypto bots or BS