@RL_Dane Yep, it was pretty rough :)

Like 8 Nov 2022 at 16:25 | Open on mastodon.social

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I'm pretty sure hashtags were invented because there WAS no twitter search.

Oh, also no twitter images or videos! haha!! Twitpic came about and eventually #BirdSite bought them, IIRC.

Also, man, really wide open APIs. I miss those days. I never used them directly, but I benefited from them in many ways.

8 Nov 2022 at 17:24 | Open on fosstodon.org

@RL_Dane @bastianallgeier You could get an API feed of the whole platform. Everything everyone posted.

8 Nov 2022 at 18:44 | Open on mastodon.radio

YES! And for a totally open platform, that was ok!

Now everything is so locked down, even bibliogram (instagram front-end alternative) had to shut down and quit development. Ugh :(

I loathe the modern web.

8 Nov 2022 at 19:08 | Open on fosstodon.org