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   Mark Jardine :misc_mtb: (mark@tapbots.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 16:06:39 JST Mark Jardine :misc_mtb:

   When I heard the news that the sale of Twitter went through, I was literally shaking. My family and I have had a rough year health-wise. My wife was diagnosed with Lupus and my 5 year old started having panic attacks out of nowhere that resulted in seizure-like symptoms. We had to up our health insurance premium to $2500 a month (Yay America!) for access to specialists previously not in our network. Then I had a bad crash on my bike where I had a concussion and lost consciousness. (1 of 6)

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     Mark Jardine :misc_mtb: (mark@tapbots.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 16:06:33 JST Mark Jardine :misc_mtb:

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     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

     Building an app for an open and decentralized social platform felt so refreshing. Inspirational! I haven't been so excited designing something in a long time. With Tweetbot, we were always fighting with the API limitations while knowing in the back of our minds that someday the API could be taken away. I didn't realize it then, but that killed a lot of our excitement and enthusiasm. With @ivory, we are just ecstatic every single day. It's just been a pure joy to make software again. (4 of 6)

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     Mark Jardine :misc_mtb: (mark@tapbots.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 16:06:35 JST Mark Jardine :misc_mtb:

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     The concept of Mastodon is great. Sure there are a lot of core issues that haven't been solved yet. But a decentralized social network with an open API is a dream for us...as long as there's a big enough user base for us to make a living. After spending some time on Mastodon again, we decided that we couldn't just sit around to see what happens at Twitter. We decided to port Tweetbot over, but something amazing happened in that process. (3 of 6)

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     Mark Jardine :misc_mtb: (mark@tapbots.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 16:06:37 JST Mark Jardine :misc_mtb:

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     We invested so much into Tweetbot over the past 11 years and to think everything was potentially going to end was the scariest thought. But as the days went on, I started to think more rationally and knew it would be okay. As much as Twitter has brought us success, it has also been extremely frustrating for the past 6-7 years trying to build something great with a nerfed API. (2 of 6)