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1. Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 04:53:08 JST Eugen Rochko

   One of the strengths of Mastodon is our API that allows 3rd party developers to create powerful integrations and full-featured apps on entirely equal footing with our own, with absolute confidence that there will never be a rug-pull. I've decided to check how the diversity of tools looked like in practice.

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 04:54:25 JST Eugen Rochko

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     Here's a glimpse of this month's most popular publishing tools. It's just the data for posts made in June on mastodon.social:

     - Web 23.9%
     - Jetpack 6.5%
     - Mastodon for Android 6.3%
     - Mastodon for iOS 4%
     - Tusky 3.3%
     - IFTTT 3.2%
     - Ivory for iOS 2.5%
     - IceCubes 1.1%
     - Mona for iPhone 0.7%
     - Elk 0.4%
     - Phanpy 0.3%

     The rest is divided up between literally a thousand other sources. It means around 66% of users are posting from 3rd party apps and integrations!

   • John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 04:56:18 JST John Gruber

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     @Gargron What explains the prominence of IFTTT?

   • Shannon Clark (rycaut@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 05:10:48 JST Shannon Clark

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     @Gargron I’m curious how this compares to the same numbers for reading?

     Ie which tools are mostly used by read-only users and which by users who post?
     (And perhaps similarly if boosts is another cohort of users)

     My instinct is that the tools used by active posters (whether of original posts or replies) will be somewhat different from the stats of users who primarily read without also posting.

     (Such stats might also illuminate which tools are used primarily by bots or software not humans)

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 05:20:17 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Christian Lawson-Perfect

     @christianp Posts!

   • Christian Lawson-Perfect (christianp@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 05:20:22 JST Christian Lawson-Perfect

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     @Gargron is this the percentage of users or the percentage of posts?

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 05:58:19 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄

     @carturo222 Web is the official web interface. Elk and Phanpy are the other web clients that are on the list.

   • Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 (carturo222@geekdom.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 05:58:20 JST Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄

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     @Gargron Can you tell, among the web users, which ones use the standard interface? For example, on web I use Statuzer.

   • Robert Boler (rcbo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 06:29:50 JST Robert Boler

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     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

     @Gargron Love to see @ivory reppin’ north Texas (and Canada), yeehaw! 🤘

   • Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 06:42:52 JST Ben Zanin

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     • mousebot

     @Gargron how many emacs nerds..?

     cc: @mousebot

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 06:45:13 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Ben Zanin
     • mousebot

     @gnomon @mousebot 0.01%

   • Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 06:51:33 JST Ben Zanin

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     • mousebot

     @Gargron @mousebot 🥳 THERE ARE LITERALLY DOZENS OF US 🎉

   • Max™ (maxthyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 06:55:19 JST Max™

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     @Gargron whaddup Tusky folks!

   • Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 07:17:19 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Mark Stoneman 🦣

     @markstoneman Jetpack is for broadcasting only, but there's a different layer to WordPress interoperability through their ActivityPub plugin which would not show up in these stats.

   • Mark Stoneman 🦣 (markstoneman@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 07:17:20 JST Mark Stoneman 🦣

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     @Gargron It would be interesting to know if the WP
     figure is mainly for broadcasting posts into this space, or if there are significant number of
     people holding conversations across blogs.

   • Thomas Ricouard (dimillian@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:24:28 JST Thomas Ricouard

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     @Gargron I wonder if you can do something for reading (and if it would make sense), like how many home timelines fetch per reading tools.

   • Alex Barredo 📉 (barredo@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:30:23 JST Alex Barredo 📉

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     • Mastofeed

     @Gargron how many from @mastofeed? Could you check, please

   • votejainism (votejainism@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 02:06:23 JST votejainism

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     @Gargron

     Hi Eugen!

     Perhaps if http://mastodon.social committed itself to not interfering in elections around the world, then governments around the world might start to recommend it.
     Currently, Twitter/X seems to have free rein to do whatever it wants.
     They shadowbanned and then fully suspended my account, which affected my ability to enter the final stage of the General Election here in the UK.