These days, I browse HN, proggit, Twitter, Reddit and Metafilter regularly. If Twitter really does nerf their APIs, I'll have to stop visiting it because principles, and it will take 20% of my current Web universe with it.
Not sure if my other hotspots will take its place, or if I'll finally start turning away from the Web.
Maybe I just don't find the right people. On Twitter, I can look up people I'm interested in. Like "That company is doing something cool, let's follow the CEO on Twitter". But on Mastodon?
Is there anybody 'normal' on there who posts substantial stuff?
Most likely don't want to leave for other networks because what they have works for them. An alternative to the mainstream doesn't appeal to people who don't reject the mainstream, and another social network alongside what they have might seem redundant.
But if you think people are divided up into “normal” and “not normal” (and your definition of normal is “some CEO”) then yeah, maybe Mastodon isn’t right for you.
One of the founders wrote about it yesterday https://medium.com/assembly-four/my-six-week-rollercoaster-r...
full of vintage computer experts, BBS operators,
people working to revitalize Gopher
As another poster put it "An alternative to the mainstream doesn't appeal to people who don't reject the mainstream".
I think what you're trying to say is "the aforementioned social network doesn't have people who share the same interests as me" rather than it being full of people who are mentally unwell.
Clients for iOS and Android are being built by indie developers - icro for iOS is great and there's also Dialog for Android now.
> SPIDR is an AI-powered news aggregator that uses textual analysis to group similar news together
> The aim is to provide fast access to relevant news from different viewpoints
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