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It's weird in that I've just noticed that in all my interactions with Twitter, access to it has been *hostile*. It's like there's a security team around the perimeter, and all the times I've managed to get in I feel like I've been super sneaky, and a guard change cuts off one path, so I have to route around for another.
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It looks like I can do *everything* from Mastodon's clutter-free web UI, and I'm finding a plethora of mobile clients that (while not perfect) are able to do everything I need. I presume that's because Mastodon's API is so open, and it wasn't built to be hostile to developers like Twitter seems to be more and more.
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@Mycroft If you want to go back to my first couple of years on Twitter it was kind of the same way. Quite a few people *still* have me blocked from 2008-2010 even though I've spoken to them in person since and there is no ill will left that I'm aware of.
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@skquinn Oh I've only been meaning the technical side here, specifically accessing mobile. The social side is another thread entirely.
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@Mycroft Oh. I haven't done any real development with Twitter so that's not something I'd know about. I have heard of the API limits from developers talking about them though. They made alternative apps difficult because they want everyone to use the official app or the website because of ads.
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@skquinn I don't know much about dev myself (most complicated thing I ever did was in BASIC), but I have heard from a friend that he has access to a magic app that never crashes and does everything I want, but I can't get it because Twitter shut down its ability to request third-party access to new users or something.
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@Mycroft That sounds just like something they'd do. That and screwing up blocking.
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@Mycroft The API for Twitter used to be a bit more open then they started locking it down to be almost useless.
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It took Mastodon having such an open UI for me to realize how hard it was to do anything on Twitter. Mobile apps seem to be all crashy and terrible, it's just a matter of finding the least worst for my own use cases. The best I have right now lets me check and post from multiple accounts, plus cross-account rt and like. But it crashes often, I can't see likes, and of course can't see polls.