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Tapbots<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory,  is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. Tweetbot will continue to be developed alongside Ivory as a lot of code is shared. A new Mac version of Tweetbot and Ivory are also currently in development and we are working hard on getting those towards a public beta state.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Mark Jardine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Currently, I’m following Mastodon accounts using NetNewsWire, since the Web interface doesn’t remember where you are in the timeline.<\/p>\n\n

I like what Tapbots did with Netbot for App.net back in the day, though I never found it satisfying to use two different services at once. It’s annoying to have separate timelines in two different apps, with some posts duplicated.<\/p>\n\n

Twitter has been<\/a> changing its policies<\/a> so rapidly, and with scant or subsequently deleted<\/a> explanations, so it doesn’t seem worth following the drama<\/a> over there too closely.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n