A few months ago, I wrote about the opportunities for developers around Mastodon.
Since then, I’ve been excited to see the different apps popping up around the Mastodon ecosystem – on iOS alone, the past fortnight saw three or four impressive new client apps emerge (and more are in testing), plus excellent Progressive Web Apps like Elk are gaining attention.
(curious what Mastodon clients are out there? there is a very nice Google Sheet that tries to list out the various options across platforms, as well as the features they implement)
I am pretty varied in my own usage of the platform, and I wanted to take a look at which apps I’ve been using the most frequently.
Using Python with the Mastodon API (with the Mastodon.py library), plus the lovely tools available in the Python ecosystem – in this case, Pandas and Matplotlib – we can quickly get a sense of where I’ve been spending my time, and where I’ve been experimenting.
Here’s a quick overview of the…