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A part of me is curious what would happen if all of these 3rd party clients banded together to create their own separate backend - surely it wouldn't be that ha
by jjcm 4y ago
A part of me is curious what would happen if all of these 3rd party clients banded together to create their own separate backend - surely it wouldn't be that hard to get a clone of Twitter going. There's likely a strong correlation with people who use 3rd party clients and people who are power users, so you'd have a strong social network from the start.
- politician 4y agoI agree, it seems like the obvious move since there is an installed base. But, how much of that installed base is able to be monetized to support the ongoing costs of operation of this backend? Aren't most of these clients free?
- mmastrac 4y agoI mean, some of them are working on Mastodon clients so it's already happening.