In 2023, I plan to advocate more for client apps to embrace the larger IndieWeb and fediverse. Mastodon going mainstream is a great step forward, but we don’t want a monoculture. A key IndieWeb principle is plurality: multiple apps with different codebases that can interoperate.
@manton I’m a weirdo, so it would be unwise to make any decisions based on my preferences, but for the record: I really can’t stand Mastodon (it’s just Twitter Redux) and yet I feel that it has taken over my micro.blog timeline. In theory I’m all for interoperability but in practice I’m worried about Mastodon’s emerging dominance and wishing I could build a firewall to protect me from it.