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Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by depereo on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:13PM (#35377579)
And so is Mastodon, now.
Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by anigbrowl on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:55PM (#35378026)
No it isn't. I know someone who runs a specialist news outlet and cross-posts everything to Mastodon. It yields only a trickle of traffic/engagement despite the target market being pretty anti-Musk. Indeed, I'm told traffic/engagement on Twitter has actually improved since the takeover. What people say and how they behave are two different things. A lot of people still check Twitter every day because train wrecks are interesting.
Re:The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained by raydev on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:57PM (#35379333)
Every time someone shares a link to a Mastodon post, I click on it and eventually realize it's not my instance, so I can't just click to follow the person or return to my feed by clicking. And that is only one example of how the decentralized experience is fundamentally broken.