A Lesson In Choosing Foundations
I just read this article.
I don't follow a whole lot of things, so maybe I'm wrong, but I get the gist that Twitter is no longer compatible with 3rd-party services.
Again, I'm clueless and just putting some pieces together from that article as a singular source. Bad idea, but this is just a journal. But, it seems the author runs some 3rd-party app that now doesn't work and won't work.
I'm sure that sucks.
But, at the same time, I'm having trouble feeling that bad for them.
To me, this is simply an example of learning the hard way that building something on top of a closed platform is a terrible idea.
You signed up to play by their rules, their rules changed, and now your S.O.L.
It definitely sucks. I am sorry this happened, and that it happened this way. BUT, I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a part of me that felt it was an inevitability. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think the author sounds like a winy child who's mad their neighbor decided to go home and take their ball with them.
This is just how it goes when you piggie back off of closed platforms. They make the rules, you scrounge for crumbs.
It all comes down to are you building your house on a rock, or the sand.
I'm not going to remember, and this post/blog will never have enough traffic to remind me, but I'd love to talk to the author in 5 years. My money's on this being the biggest blessing their life has had (next to maybe children).
Twitter cut you loose, and now you're free to build your own thing. Now you're free to work with an open platform.
Your (the author's) ideas of creating a fully connected client are, one, brilliant, and, two, only truly possible with open systems.
Intentionally, or (probably) not, Elon is making the social media sphere a better place by pushing everyone towards open systems that wouldn't have seen mass adoption otherwise.
Dear author of that post, I can't wait to see what you've built in 5 years. I can't wait for you to look back and laugh at all of this.