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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 04:49:52 JST Chris Trottier

   ?BIG NEWS?

   Buffer just added Mastodon as one of its supported social networks!

   Amongst social media professionals this is HUGE!

   See screenshots!

   https://www.coywolf.news/social/buffer-adds-mastodon/

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 08:22:04 JST Chris Trottier

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     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.

     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: likes this.
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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 08:22:05 JST Chris Trottier

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     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.

     Evan Prodromou repeated this.
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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 08:22:06 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Jon Henshaw

     Big thanks to @henshaw for breaking this story.

     Also, did you manage to get any Pixelfed or Peertube accounts to work with Buffer?

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 20:56:18 JST Chris Trottier

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     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.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2023 20:56:52 JST pettter

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     @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.