If Threads successfully integrates well with Mastodon's fediverse, and proves popular with the mass, I would love to see XMPP or Signal or whatever open standard protocol for messaging be next to rise.

I DO NOT want to maintain 9 different chat apps any longer.

People seems to be more hype around Mastodon apps lately. What am I missing out on? I quite enjoy the web app interface so I just have PWA on my phone. Are there any app-exclusive features I should know about?

PS. I follow a Mastodon app developer here and I think what he's doing is cool and neat but I'm not sure what the difference to the PWA is aside from the UI.

I can't repeat this often enough.

What I want web3 to be about is gossip protocol like scuttlebutt and activitypub like mastodon. We need open, decentralized, and federated internet, and peer-to-peer protocol should be web3 focus.