I've always felt like the API enabled us to make Twitter a ~success, back before it had critical mass. I built a small literary journal on early Twitter, and k

I've always felt like the API enabled us to make Twitter a ~success, back before it had critical mass. I built a small literary journal on early Twitter, and knowing we had a simple way to archive what we were publishing and do stuff like bio-driven contributors notes was a big part of why it made sense to bother investing creative energy on a new platform and social capital convincing writers to make accounts. It's been frustrating to watch the past few years. I haven't fully decided if I have the energy to reinvent it for a new platform, but poking around at atproto stuff earlier this fall made me more hopeful about the prospect than a similar draft I have on top of gotosocial (even though thw former ia much further from complete).