Openvibe, previously Plebstr, previously Tweetoshi was a repeated attempt at creating a product for the wrong audience. It never served its purpose, even if the concept was novel at the time. Tweetoshi was a great idea for its time. They had zaps on Twitter before Nostr existed. Then they focused entirely on building a Nostr client, but it was so full of bugs that it was unusable. When Bluesky launched they pivoted to try to build a Swiss Army knife of decentral-ish protocols, but there was no appeal for it because social network users are tribal and bridging has never succeeded, not once that I can remember, and I have seen it tried for at least 15 years.
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It's not 15 years, but it seems like :) I think MatΔj started this whole thing sometime around 2020, it was a very young team
Yeah, the only interesting thing about Tweetoshi were the zaps, otherwise it was pretty stupid - building a client on a proprietary Twitter API π€¦ββ
From the beginning, it was, from my point of view, quite clear inexperience and naivety. Now they are probably focusing on AT Protocol/Mastodon, that could bring them finally the growth they are probably expecting, but I don't know.