For many, the Twitter experience *was* Tweetbot, Twitterific, or whatever app they loved. No surprise that many Tweetbot users fled to Mastodon when Ivory came out. I think there’s a big opportunity for an app maker to own “open social.”

@cleverdevil honestly, Apollo makes reddit useable, although the idea of “owning open” is a bit wobbly…

@bkryer yeah point taken. What I mean is that there is an opportunity to be the first mover. The beauty of “open social” is that no one should be able to own it over the long haul.

@cleverdevil check. if we put every word in quotes where the hell would we be? :-)

And true, if the shift from app conception to protocol conception finds root, so no owners, cool. But maybe it never happens, like instant msging?

@cleverdevil Could we hope for an ideal akin to podcasting here? The format is universally recognized and apps to listen to podcasts are in abundant supply on any platform.

@cleverdevil Ah, good insight, yes. Perhaps the future belongs to the one who catches the right combination of features and protocols on the rise and stitches them together the right way.