Tim Bray on choosing Mastodon:
Commercial products, especially social-media services, have never been at peace with third-party clients. Twitter used to be, but then it stabbed those developers in the back. It’s easy to understand why; every product manager has it drilled into them that they must control the user experience. This ignores the ancient wisdom (I first heard it from Bill Joy) “Wherever you work, most of the smart people are somewhere else.”
This is partly what keeps me away from most social media platforms. I find limiting or barring access to my own data published on a platform to be icky. The same could be said, albeit to a lesser extent, for placing barriers in accessing or browsing data on the platform in general. It's what first made my distance myself from Twitter, prior to Elon's takover, and is also what drove me to deactivate my Reddit account.
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