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Maybe some folks like yourself thought Twitter was terrible before, but plenty of people were happy enough until certain changes by Musk. Mastodon itself had a

by naet 3y ago

Maybe some folks like yourself thought Twitter was terrible before, but plenty of people were happy enough until certain changes by Musk. Mastodon itself had a large growth recently as people left Twitter in response. I had an automated bot running for a long time on Twitter that I was happy with, until recently when API access was cut off. Now I'm looking for a new platform for my bot to run on as a direct result of recent controversial policy change. Maybe it will be Mastodon or Bluesky, or maybe something else. I think I prefer something more similar to how Twitter was than Mastodon currently is for my needs.

detaro 3y ago
> I think I prefer something more similar to how Twitter was than Mastodon currently is for my needs. curious what those differences would be for running your bot?
necovek 3y ago
For an automated bot making announcement-like posts, a Twitter page is simply a web page with subscriptions for those having a Twitter account: you naturally assume everybody has a Twitter account and checks it regularly, or put more negatively, you ignore anyone not on Twitter. Mastodon would serve exactly the same purpose with the set of people being "ignored" being much larger. Email newsletter services would pretty much include everyone (on the internet, at least). What kind of bot did you run?