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Eugen Rochko

One of the strengths of Mastodon is our API that allows 3rd party developers to create powerful integrations and full-featured apps on entirely equal footing with our own, with absolute confidence that there will never be a rug-pull. I've decided to check how the diversity of tools looked like in practice.

22 June at 19:52 | Open on mastodon.social
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Eugen Rochko

Here's a glimpse of this month's most popular publishing tools. It's just the data for posts made in June on mastodon.social:

- Web 23.9%
- Jetpack 6.5%
- Mastodon for Android 6.3%
- Mastodon for iOS 4%
- Tusky 3.3%
- IFTTT 3.2%
- Ivory for iOS 2.5%
- IceCubes 1.1%
- Mona for iPhone 0.7%
- Elk 0.4%
- Phanpy 0.3%

The rest is divided up between literally a thousand other sources. It means around 66% of users are posting from 3rd party apps and integrations!

Here's a glimpse of this month's most popular publishing tools. It's just the data for posts made in June on mastodon.social:

- Web 23.9%
- Jetpack 6.5%
- Mastodon for Android 6.3%
- Mastodon for iOS 4%
- Tusky 3.3%
- IFTTT 3.2%
- Ivory for iOS 2.5%
- IceCubes 1.1%
- Mona for iPhone 0.7%
- Elk 0.4%
- Phanpy 0.3%

22 June at 19:54 | Open on mastodon.social
John Gruber

@Gargron What explains the prominence of IFTTT?

22 June at 19:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Felix Urbasik

@Gargron The web UI is remarkably good. Must be the lack of data collection and ads.

22 June at 19:56 | Open on ma.fellr.net
Michael Salbeck
Shannon Clark

@Gargron I’m curious how this compares to the same numbers for reading?

Ie which tools are mostly used by read-only users and which by users who post?
(And perhaps similarly if boosts is another cohort of users)

My instinct is that the tools used by active posters (whether of original posts or replies) will be somewhat different from the stats of users who primarily read without also posting.

(Such stats might also illuminate which tools are used primarily by bots or software not humans)

@Gargron I’m curious how this compares to the same numbers for reading?

Ie which tools are mostly used by read-only users and which by users who post?
(And perhaps similarly if boosts is another cohort of users)

My instinct is that the tools used by active posters (whether of original posts or replies) will be somewhat different from the stats of users who primarily read without also posting.

22 June at 20:10 | Open on mastodon.social
Christian Lawson-Perfect

@Gargron is this the percentage of users or the percentage of posts?

22 June at 20:19 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Eugen Rochko
Christian Lawson-Perfect

@Gargron ah, so maybe it's not that 66% of users are posting from other apps? There could be a few users posting lots more than the average, from their own apps?

22 June at 20:36 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Mark Stosberg

@Gargron
@johnonolan These stats are a preview of the impact of adding Ghost to the Fediverse. The #2 posting client behind “web” is Jetpack, aka: WordPress.

There are most posts from WordPress than any single mobile app.

#GhostBlog

22 June at 20:21 | Open on urbanists.social
Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄

@Gargron Can you tell, among the web users, which ones use the standard interface? For example, on web I use Statuzer.

22 June at 20:41 | Open on geekdom.social
Eugen Rochko

@carturo222 Web is the official web interface. Elk and Phanpy are the other web clients that are on the list.

22 June at 20:58 | Open on mastodon.social
Mike Fraser :Jets: :flag:

@Gargron #Phanpy is so ground breaking, but #Tusky is still my daily driver on Android.

22 June at 21:14 | Open on thecanadian.social
Monique

@Gargron Interesting info, I use Mona on my iPhone, and Tweesecake on my pc. Tweesecake has been designed with blind and low vision users in mind, very accessible with screenreaders and even with an invisible interface so I can use it regardless what window I am in. And the cool part, Tweesecake also does Telegram, Feeds, Radio and more.

22 June at 21:27 | Open on tulipgardenshow.masto.host
CerebralHawks

@Gargron Ice Cubes user checking in. Completely free on iOS. Mac as well, but I prefer my browser if I’m on the Mac

22 June at 21:28 | Open on geekdom.social
Robert Boler

@Gargron Love to see @ivory reppin’ north Texas (and Canada), yeehaw! 🤘

22 June at 21:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Ben Zanin
Max™
Josh Buchea

@Gargron Thank you for sharing these stats.

People are sleeping on Mona @MonaApp, it’s SO GOOD!

22 June at 22:08 | Open on hachyderm.io
Mark Stoneman 🦣

@Gargron It would be interesting to know if the WP
figure is mainly for broadcasting posts into this space, or if there are significant number of
people holding conversations across blogs.

22 June at 22:13 | Open on zirk.us
Eugen Rochko

@markstoneman Jetpack is for broadcasting only, but there's a different layer to WordPress interoperability through their ActivityPub plugin which would not show up in these stats.

22 June at 22:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Mark Stoneman 🦣

@Gargron Okay. That's interesting. I enjoy how I can post from within other apps: Drafts.app
and Micro.blog's webapp, in particular. But I'm all
in on Ivory for the conversation and scrolling.

22 June at 22:23 | Open on zirk.us
Andy Piper

@Gargron when I'm not boarding a plane I'll re-run my test of my personal publishing pattern ... As you know, I'm a big fan of the API 😉 dev.to/andypiper/analysing-whi

23 June at 4:06 | Open on macaw.social
Robert-André Mauchin
Talesto :mastodon:

@Gargron

Great stats
I think that's what it was made for.

Freedom.

23 June at 7:04 | Open on mstdn.social
Leonie :vf: :kopimi:

@Gargron the Web UI is great, but can we have feature-parity with the API? For example there is still no way to schedule toots in the Web UI and it has been an issue for years at this point.

23 June at 7:42 | Open on kopimi.space
Radomír Žemlička
Jessikat Irisviel
Frdl.

@Gargron I really like IceCubes 😄
The web version is also great! Thank you for this good work.

23 June at 15:42 | Open on social.suchtbasis.de
Ralf Kotthoff

@Gargron @marcelweiss Jetpack (= Wordpress, oder?) schon auf Platz 2. Es wird....

23 June at 17:53 | Open on mastodon.online
Thomas Ricouard

@Gargron I wonder if you can do something for reading (and if it would make sense), like how many home timelines fetch per reading tools.

24 June at 15:24 | Open on mastodon.social
Alex Barredo 📉

@Gargron how many from @mastofeed? Could you check, please

24 June at 15:30 | Open on mastodon.social
gocu54

@Gargron What's really cool is that I'm using 2 programs, one for my iPad and phone and the other for my computer, and both work great with Mastodon because they're totally accessible with screen readers. thank you for helping that be a possibility.

22 June at 19:55 | Open on tweesecake.social
Mark Stoneman 🦣

@Gargron Don't IFTTT integrations exist only for mastodon.social?

22 June at 22:32 | Open on zirk.us
votejainism

@Gargron

Hi Eugen!

Perhaps if mastodon.social committed itself to not interfering in elections around the world, then governments around the world might start to recommend it.
Currently, Twitter/X seems to have free rein to do whatever it wants.
They shadowbanned and then fully suspended my account, which affected my ability to enter the final stage of the General Election here in the UK.

25 June at 17:06 | Open on mastodon.social
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