@bastianallgeier I'm pretty sure hashtags were invented...

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.

Like 8 Nov 2022 at 17:24 | Wall-to-wall | Open on fosstodon.org

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@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