@cosine @brainblasted

actually, by far, the most widely used client on the instances I admin is Tusky.

the motivations behind Michabo are different than the motivations behind Tootle, GNOME Social and (possibly?) ActivityDesk though.

Michabo is being developed the Pleroma way -- move quickly, be aggressive about breaking things as long as there are clear benefits, encourage and cultivate contributions to the codebase from contributors of all skill levels. like Pleroma FE, Pleroma BE, Charisma and the underlying frameworks, Michabo is just another component of our platform.

meanwhile, Tootle and GNOME Social are very much developed the GNOME way, and are part of the GNOME platform. but GNOME has different objectives than we do, so Tootle and GNOME Social don't get much attention.

i can't say where ActivityDesk is going, but i think Michabo serves a different niche than it as well. i believe ActivityDesk is more about unifying the Mastodon/Pleroma ecosystem and the IndieWeb ecosystem. (Pleroma has thoughts on the IndieWeb ecosystem, too, but that's a discussion for later.)