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Chris Trottier

Neat comment from @Gargron just now:

"Mastodon was built on the API-first principle."

This is important because a whole lot of 3rd party app developers were promised "openness" by Twitter -- and those promises were broken.

3rd party development is where so much innovation happens!

29 Dec 2022 at 23:00 | Open on mastodon.social
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Space Catitude 🚀

@atomicpoet @Gargron

Well, note also the issue of "perverse incentives".

Companies like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo etc are all threatened by the possibility of a 3rd party app interfering with their revenue flows. Having an API creates the illusion of openness, but constantly changing it makes competition ineffective.

This is a non-issue for open-source distributed media like Mastodon (or any Fediverse software). It's a free market, not a closed shop.

29 Dec 2022 at 23:04 | Open on realsocial.life
Chris Trottier

@TerryHancock It's almost as though they want to incentivize other people's innovations -- then swipe them for themselves!

@Gargron

29 Dec 2022 at 23:11 | Open on mastodon.social
Cyper Bunk

@atomicpoet @Gargron I remember when twitter shut off the firehose. It was as if thousands of mashups cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

30 Dec 2022 at 0:23 | Open on sfba.social
Chris Trottier

@bageler @Gargron I suspect that an entire generation of developers was turned off "open" APIs.

30 Dec 2022 at 0:24 | Open on mastodon.social
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