'Croissant' App for Cross-Posting on Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon Coming to Mac and iPad

[noSpeed]

What's driving the push to other social media services?

 

[turbineseaplane]

I’ve solved this by just focusing on BlueSky

It’s finally taken off and a ton of fun

Very much early twitter vibes

 

[ericinboston]

Crossposting….like anyone born after 1980 even knows what that is!

 

[Return Zero]

Using X/twitter un-curated is pure madness and will open yourself up to full blown brainwashing. The worst is the ‘for you’ tab. Just use, ’following’ and create your own list.

It is no worse than any other platform in that regard. Just because things are mainstream and popularly accepted doesn’t mean they are not also brainwashing. The ‘for you’ tab algorithm will certainly lead you down some crazy rabbit holes if you allow it, but I’d far rather be my own curator than have an unknown black box with government and big corporation pressure deciding behind the scenes what I should and shouldn’t be exposed to.

 

[GMShadow]

It is no worse than any other platform in that regard. Just because things are mainstream and popularly accepted doesn’t mean they are not also brainwashing. The ‘for you’ tab algorithm will certainly lead you down some crazy rabbit holes if you allow it, but I’d far rather be my own curator than have an unknown black box with government and big corporation pressure deciding behind the scenes what I should and shouldn’t be exposed to.

I mostly have my own For You tabs curated. Only had to block 30ish phrases (mostly celeb/AI nonsense) and I just interact with content I *like*, so I get more of it. Generally quite pleasant to scroll.

X especially is easy to curate compared to sites like Facebook. The problem is that if you constantly interact with content that makes you mad, you're going to get more of it. That's not the fault of the site, that's the fault of the user.

 

[QuarterSwede]

Bluesky feels a lot like the old twitter. No ads, no content farms being boosted on my for you feed, no twitter blue users spamming replies to make money off engagement.

Yet.

That will come just as it did for Twitter.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

What's driving the push to other social media services?

People who prefer more censorship and moderation of content and speech. And to some degree, people who feel bad since the election.

 

[Johnny907]

I'm enjoying Bluesky. There is no algorithm, so you don't get unwanted content shoved down your throat. You only see what you want. And the platform offers awesome moderation tools, so you are in control. The user base is now growing at a pace of 1 million new users a day, and the MacRumors account has gained around 6k new followers in a few days. On the MacRumors account, the engagement level is arguably higher than on any other microblogging platform. Everywhere actually. The engagement is very high because your posts actually get exposed.

The Verge has some cool how-tos for the newbies on Bluesky:
https://www.theverge.com/24295933/bluesky-social-network-custom-how-to

This post has a strong odor of “brought to you by the staff at Bluesky” to it.

 

[john123]

People who prefer more censorship and moderation of content and speech. And to some degree, people who feel bad since the election.

Lately it’s the latter. There’s a lot of rage directed at Elon, so the spike in the last couple weeks is, essentially, a boycott of X because it’s his company.

 

[seanmcbay]

I’m not moving until every account I follow literally stops using Twitter.

 

[Aleh]

It’s touching to see so many people here think that X is some kind of “uncensored” heaven of free speech. Lmao. I mean I’m pretty sure they know it’s bs too, but it’s still funny to see nonetheless.

 

[Rychiar]

3 social media sites I've never once thought about signing up for or know anyone else on lol

 

[coolfactor]

Singular apps supporting multiple networks is a fine idea ... remember Adium for Mac?

But crossposting is ripe for abuse.

 

[coolfactor]

I can't understand why all people are fleeing from Twitter. It seems in these days it is a political statement to use or not use certain networks. Doesn't it make more sense though to join the networks that are full of people who do NOT share your views? There your own views will have a much bigger impact. Why share your views with people who already share your views?

I finally weaned myself off of Twitter, er X, and couldn't be happier! Just could not give any of my time to a "company" owned by that guy. After he bought it, there was a very visible turn towards toxicity across all kinds of conversations. Twitter is dead. X is something new.

 

[vjl323]

Singular apps supporting multiple networks is a fine idea ... remember Adium for Mac?

But crossposting is ripe for abuse.

I miss Adium *so* much. Just recently went to go see if any work had been done on it. It's open source, but last activity was 3 years ago: https://github.com/adium/adium

 

[GuilleA]

What’s the point? You still have to open each app to see replies and reactions.

 

[John_Blackthorne]

When you don’t want to use the largest social media network but want to smear your stuff across three lesser ones, this is the app for you!

You are probably making people mad....

 

[subjonas]

Largest may also mean evil. You decide.

That’s true, people often vilify the most successful companies and people, putting them under the moral microscope, believing only the negative, never acknowledging any good, while angel-ifying and assuming the best about underdogs. People love underdogs… until they become too successful.

 

[Entilzha]

You are probably making people mad....

I haven’t bothered to look at most of the replies here, since I’m sure they’re some variation on “Censorship is good when it’s things I don’t like being censored!” or something like that.

 

[subjonas]

This is false. People are leaving because of how significantly bad Twitter as a platform has become, including taking away or reducing the significance of a feature, such as basically rendering the block feature useless by changing it to where users can still see your posts and everything even if you have them blocked. There are other reasons but I can’t go into them without getting political.

The owner of Twitter is also, quite frankly, an absolute jerk of a person.

I don’t think you really addressed the post you responded to. It made two claims about the type of people who left X, not why they left. After you said that’s false, you explained why they left but didn’t explain how you know the two claims were false. (Whether the claims are true or false I have no idea)

 

[mr_flibble]

It's not about sharing your views with people who share your own opinion. It's about using a platform with an algorithm that is not controlled and manipulated by one single person. It's about choosing for a decentralized internet instead of dancing to the rhythm of a guy who happens to have an obscene amount of money.

You probably misplaced Facebook (controlled by one very rich person) with X which is owned by a rich person but not controlled. Actually you can say whatever you want there, if not against the law it is not censored (contrary to all other major platforms and former Twitter that are/were removing content based on government request or platform management political leaning). X code is open source for you to see if you believe it is manipulated in some way directed by someone you disagree with in something.

 

[JonathanX64]

$60 for a simple app that does simple interactions with three different APIs?

That stuff is easily automatable with Python, literally takes few minutes with ChatGPT. An hour if you'd want to make it into cross-platform Swift app. Few more hours to make it look really nice.

Those pesky capitalists from California are out of their minds, as usual.

 

[JonathanX64]

This is false. People are leaving because of how significantly bad Twitter as a platform has become, including taking away or reducing the significance of a feature, such as basically rendering the block feature useless by changing it to where users can still see your posts and everything even if you have them blocked. There are other reasons but I can’t go into them without getting political.

The owner of Twitter is also, quite frankly, an absolute jerk of a person.

Block feature used to operate exactly like this before ~2021.

And honestly, it makes more sense that way. Tweets are public; whoever was blocked by you could read them from another account. Plus, conversation chains are fully visible now, which is much much more convenient.

 

[JonathanX64]

You probably misplaced Facebook (controlled by one very rich person) with X which is owned by a rich person but not controlled. Actually you can say whatever you want there, if not against the law it is not censored (contrary to all other major platforms and former Twitter that are/were removing content based on government request or platform management political leaning). X code is open source for you to see if you believe it is manipulated in some way directed by someone you disagree with in something.

Masterful gambit, sir.

 

[hooptyuber]

Bluesky feels a lot like the old twitter. No ads, no content farms being boosted on my for you feed, no twitter blue users spamming replies to make money off engagement.

“The old Twitter” - the one that was run per the orders of the FBI and other state security agencies to suppress speech and manipulate the political discourse. Wow, sounds great!