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I think you would be surprised. The folks who will pay for a premium experience by using a 3rd party app are likely willing to do the same on another platform.

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Might be a hard sell for me since less than 10% of the accounts that I follow on Twitter have any kind of Mastodon presence, and toot per tweet volume is probably considerably less than 10%.

I can get a lot more value from a good Twitter client than I can from a good Mastodon client.

On the other hand, I left twitter quite a while ago and I was a tweetbot user. I’ll be purchasing Ivory the day it’s available since I’m really waiting for a mastodon client that offers the tweetbot experience.

Purchasing or subscribing? Because I'd wager that Ivory will be on a yearly subscription basis like Tweetbot is now.

I’ll even subscribe. You can see how long I haven’t been on Twitter, I missed the move I subscription on tweetbot ;)

That is true for now, but in increase in mastodon usage is really mind blowing.

It is hard to believe such a big social network to migrate overnight, but it has happened before with digg moving to reddit.

I think you are missing where a large part of the value from those alternative clients come from beside features and layout: no ads or trash recommendations.

As far as I know, neither of those are an issue on Mastodon and therefore the value of 3rd party clients isn't there.

For me it’s about paying for a slightly smoother UX and for supporting the growth of the Mastodon ecosystem. I hope that good 3rd party apps will eventually also ease the onboarding of less techie audiences.

I hate subs, but I might make an exception here.

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