Eugen RochkoChecking out @ivory!
Jeff MoePlease no!
Please don't spread proprietary apps on Mastodon. This will be the downfall. We'll just have another tw*tter.
Tim@jebba how? Can you give an example.
For example, what google did with the Jabber chat protocol. Anyone could set up a server, and it was nice and distributed, just like Mastodon.
Then Google added Jabber support (now called XMPP) to their chat app. Everyone cheered. Yay! Google! Now way more people can chat! Since jabber and gmail people could chat, more people using other jabber services just started using google instead.
Once google had a large enough market, they turned off jabber connections. The end.
@jebba just like Facebook did back in the day... Yeah I understand your concerns with this.
But I'm not really that scared that Ivory/Tapbots will do something like this. They create great apps that are easy to use. I tried the app earlier today on my iPad and one of the first screens explains the concept of the fediverse and that there are multiple instances.
We need to worry once a big tech company tries take control of it or "participate" in it.
Why wouldn't they? If they have market success MSFT or whoever just buys them and the new policies come in.
It's really irrelevant how "good" the app is. You don't even know what it is really doing!
Is it sending your data to Cambridge Analytica?
I guess I should also point out, since it is closed, *you have no idea what it is doing*.
It can zip up all your files and mail them to Peter Thiel, for all you know.