Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko tells Engadget: “Third party applications are incredibly valuable for a platform because that's where the power users go … it benefits everybody because the power users are the people who create the content that everybody reads.”
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https://www.engadget.com/twitter-client-developers-fleeing-twitter-mastodon-130031551.html
@jaredwhite @tchambers
So true - and a broad set of apps ensures that there is something for different tastes and preferences. And without the underlying surveillance business model, it creates opportunities both for community / open source apps (like #IceCubesApp) or commercial offerings (like #Ivory)