Chris Trottier🚨BIG NEWS🚨
Buffer just added Mastodon as one of its supported social networks!
Amongst social media professionals this is HUGE!
See screenshots!
Big thanks to @henshaw for breaking this story.
Also, did you manage to get any Pixelfed or Peertube accounts to work with Buffer?
Buffer adding Mastodon is just another example of the momentum that the Fediverse now has amongst developers -- and how this is going to push adoption forward.
This is the *real* story about Mastodon's growth during the past three months.
Yes, the first wave of Fediverse adoption came from people looking for a Twitter replacement.
But the next wave of adoption is going to come from an ecosystem of apps.
Why?
Because some of those Twitter migrants were developers.
And once they played around with the code, they all remembered how nice it is to build something on an open protocol.
Hal O’Brien 🇺🇸🇾🇪🇭🇰🏴🏴☠️@atomicpoet The hilarious irony of the Twitter hejira to Mastodon, given Twitter’s alleged newly-found right-wing friendliness:
While the number of people who have moved to Mastodon may be small, as a percentage of Twitter’s total base, the ones who *have* may be said to have… well, um…
“Gone Galt.”
More than that, they’ve done what libertarians have always said customers could do — switched to a better alternative, even if with substantial hurdles.