made micro blogging tool(twitter replacements) that works using imessage.
allows publishing things through imessage without consuming tons of tweets first. the bonus is that all my data is on my devices anyway.
here is my micro blog public.me/anton
š anton
share things online. while controlling the data
How is it to work with iMessage? Messages is one of my favorite apps, but I hadnāt thought of it as a platform before.
ah, itās a bit weird to integrate with apple apps since they donāt have regular APIs. but the good part is that all the data is stored in sqlite.
nowadays there are many open source projects that allow you to work with imessage easier
So... you are building a social network based on an implementation detail of a single proprietary piece of software?
Konrad Hinsen I guess the answer is probably yes.
Also, I didnāt setup to build āsocial networkā. I mostly build initial version to publish things online with no social features(they were just requested later and in general social features are just an overlay layer).
about proprietary thing - the answer is yes.
But, to me it feels there is nice trade off in the sense that a lot of Apple Software is ālocal firstā
So all the messages in imessage, all the notes in apple notes, mails in apple mail and so on live on your laptop(and your Apple devices in general)
And this benefit is huge for me.
Eg all those modern decentralized or federated things like bluesky and mastodon are cool. But my data is never on my machine. The source of truth is always in some cloud database.
With my approach the source of truth are data on my devices.
Would I want that to be open format? Yes, ofc. That would be much better.
