what happened to third party social media clients? they were popular in the early 2000s (trillian, gaim, etc) but they didn't make the transition from instant messaging/chat to web-based social media
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IM as clearly defined protocols you can emulate, websites are highly complex ever-changing protocols which you can only interact with from either the real website or a native application, not from a website, which makes barrier to use much lower for one than for the other
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the native applications have clearly defined protocols, too
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services can't control how often users update their native apps so they have to keep the network protocol fairly stable so its compatible with old versions
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With React Native and background automatic updates I wonder how true this is. I've seen 30 days as the cutoff which is a lot less than in the days of yore and quite a cadence for an open-source developer to keep up with.
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I don't see how any of this is different from how things were in 2002. aim deliberately broke their protocol for third party apps about every month and that didn't stop gaim and trillian (note all the "fixed AIM connection issues" entries here https://web.archive.org/web/20020212103543/http://www.trillian.cc/versions.txt …)
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youtube-dl is an example of how this can work today. when a service they support breaks they usually have a patch available in a few hours and you can update to it in about five seconds
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