This will make many people much more comfortable when they switch.
Before Ivory, I always felt friction when I tried to use Mastodon.
I was drawn back to Twitter because it waseasier.
Tapbots
Instead of being one monolithic service, Mastodon uses the ActivityPub protocol to allow decentralized connections.
Since Twitter started to go downhill, people have been jumping over to Mastodon.
But that’s changing.
Tapbots Ivory is pretty much a version of its Tweetbot app, remade for Mastodon.
And already, just a few days in, the early post-Musk exodus has picked up again.
Tapbots
Twitter will surely be around for a while yet.
Some users with millions of followers won’t be interested in the diminished promotional opportunities of a smaller audience.
And for developers like Tapbots, Mastodon is a much better place to be.
So it seems that everyone, apart from maybe Twitter, is a winner.
Correction 1/26/2023: Updated paragraph 4 to more accurately reflect the punch in of service Masstodon is.
