careful w/that axe eugene debsTwitter had a point in its history where people were building side apps for it. E.g., hashtags started organically and there was hashtags.org. People made lists as a separate app before they became integrated with twitter. Same w/ photo sharing (twitpic anyone?). Discovering users was done with separate sites. I look forward to seeing whether that sort of ecosystem evolves here.
Friend of the Pod@mdesjardins the beginning of the end for Twitter was when they squashed the dev community swarming around it IMHO. I'm excited to see what developers can build on top of Mastodon.
@OrdinaryMorality definitely! I made the mistake of developing a desktop Twitter client way back in the day. Still stinging from that. (v_v)