You have no idea how good it feels to have streaming on this instance again. You remember the #BreakingMyTwitter hashtag that went round in 2018? Well, this is #FixingMyMastodon.

I looked my iTunes account history tonight and saw that I purchased Tweetbot on August 2, 2012. It was not quite a week after I had just had life-changing jaw surgery and that purchase was part of an iTunes gift card my aunt had sent me as a “get well soon” gift. Oh the journey and history I have had with Tweetbot. While I’m happy I was able to use it for so long, it is sad that the journey is over. #RIPTweetbot #BreakingMyTwitter #Tweetbot

If Twitter doesn’t love you, the IndieWeb would. I wish Twitter clients like @tweetings @twitterrific @tweetbot @TalonAndroid would support Micropub for publishing and Microsub for reading/following. Spend a few days to convert your apps and support the independent web. #BreakingMyTwitter  Imagine if we could use these clients not only to interact with Twitter, but almost any website on the planet? How cool would it be if I could use Twitterific to post to my WordPress website and Dries could use Tweetbot to post to post to his Drupal site? Maybe I could dump Feedly and Inoreader and dovetail Aperture to work with Tweetings or Talon to read all the content I’m interested in?   Manton Reece’s Micro.blog platform is an interesting multi-use case/example that has quickly usurped lots of social functionality using IndieWeb building blocks and has a handful of posting clients while it serves as a reader as well. (And of course it still allows cross-posting to Twitter as well.)   Since these W3C specs are full recommendations and work on the open web with dozens of implementations, it could allow social media apps/clients like those mentioned to not only gain new audience, but give them tremendously more autonomy as businesses and prevent any future social networks from pulling the rug out from underneath them the way Twitter has done in the past. The open web can bring back true competition to the space and collectively allow the community to keep innovating and creating while they’re interacting.  

https://boffosocko.com/2020/03/06/apps-of-a-feather-2/

Ever since @[email protected] started #BreakingMyTwitter by eliminating the APIs that @[email protected] uses for notifications, DM conversations feel like text messaging the moon. It’s cool that I get to experience the Apollo era of spaceflight, but that’s not quite how I wanted to do it.

Using twitter less and less, after the @[email protected] API changes http://apps-of-a-feather.com/
#breakingmytwitter

Kommt heute die nächste Welle von neuen Usern der freien Netzwerke wie #Friendica und #Mastodon? #Twitter wird heute wohl viele Apps massiv drosseln. #BreakingMyTwitter stadt-bremerhaven.de/twitter-u…

Thirdparty #Twitter Clients sind nach den Änderungen an der API echt unbenutzbar geworden. Die offizielle App steht in Features und UX weit hinten an. #BreakingMyTwitter