1 year ago

https://evanp.me/ has been working on decentralized social media for nearly 15 years now, having created an open source Twitter alternative called Identi.ca in 2008. So I began by asking Prodromou whether he feels a sense of validation in the current popularity of Mastodon.

I’m trying not to gloat too much, right, [because] thousands of people have lost their jobs at Twitter.

“It’s very clear that of all the various attempts to create federated social software, Mastodon has by far succeeded the best.”

So, similar to say the Twitter API, which is used for creating apps that run on Twitter — like TweetDeck.