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.
Why are developers supporting the Fediverse even though the Fediverse "only" has 10 million accounts?
Because the Fediverse offers something developers crave: stability.
As Twitter already demonstrated, they can remove API access from developers for many bullshit reasons -- with no explanation.
No company should ever depend on Twitter's API -- or any Big Social API for that matter.
But ActivityPub is a W3C-backed web standard. It is an open protocol. Unlike Twitter, it is more trustworthy.
@@atomicpoet OStatus was also a W3C standard, but that got supplanted by ActivityPub. Not saying ActivityPub will be replaced in turn, but it could absolutely be either EEE'd or supplanted wholesale, especially if the big corporations apply concentrated pressure.
This is why those companies should be broken up and/or nationalised and/or taken over by the workers and run with a different underlying goal than profit.
@pettter OStatus didn't have nearly the same momentum as ActivityPub. Many more people use it ActivityPub too.