3 platforms that nobody cares about. X is where it’s at.
Over the past few weeks, millions of people have signed up for Threads and Bluesky. With those platforms and Mastodon, there are now three prominent alternatives to X, but this means there are now more social media communities to be part of than ever. Posting across all three platforms can be tedious, but thankfully there is an app for that.
Croissant is a well-designed iPhone app that allows you to cross-post across Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon simultaneously, complete with support for images, hashtags, and tagging other accounts with the correct handle per platform. This convenience comes at a cost, as you will need to pay $2.99 per month, $19.99 per year, or a one-time fee of $59.99 to unlock the app's core function of posting across multiple accounts.
The developers of the app Aaron Vegh and Ben McCarthy are currently working on expanding the app to the Mac and iPad. In the meantime, the iPhone Mirroring feature on macOS Sequoia is a decent solution for using the iPhone app on the Mac.
Croissant does not support posting to X, but it is a useful tool for those who have jumped ship from the website formerly known as Twitter.
App Store link: Croissant - Cross-Posting
Article Link: 'Croissant' App for Cross-Posting on Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon Coming to Mac and iPad
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Whatever you want to call it, it’s great to hang out in a place where people aren’t angry all the time about everything!
Nobody cares about Gruber. He is still delusional after the election.
X is great. We are all happy there.
“Our new political monomind hangout is great and everyone is super happy there!” Sure, buddy.
I’d like to be able to post to BlueSky and Twitter as I slowly transition off.
I’d like a feature where I can never post on Threads however.
Imagine leaving Twitter just to end up on a Facebook spinoff. The goal is to leave awful companies behind.
I’d like a feature where I can never post on Threads however.
Imagine leaving Twitter just to end up on a Facebook spinoff. The goal is to leave awful companies behind.
Geez, why does everything have to be about politics? I just don’t want spam or ads, or an algorithm that gives monetary rewards for engagement bait/farming.
To be fair I get banned/suspended on macrumors for the most mundane reason lol. Usually on an every other monthly
Basis.
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Honestly I don’t get the hate for Facebook. I largely don’t see things I don’t want to. Yeah it has a lot of my data but again I’m not paranoid. Google is far worse.
Besides the bigger these business get the more “awful” they will be.
Gruber has become unreadable. He simply cannot keep his blog free from hate. You’re 100% correct, they all are so out of touch with half their audience to not just think but openly demonize those they disagree with on politics. I sent Gruber an email saying he’s alienating half his audience. He sent a nasty reply stating thanks for telling him who his audience is. The state of divisiveness is going to destroy peoples lives if they keep it up.
Seems like cognitive dissonance to want to make money posting about tech but then alienate half your audience with nonstop talk about everything except tech. I want to read about tech, not about his hatred towards anyone who doesn’t agree with his views.
There’s one thing in common with all these people - media overconsumption! It’s not free media, marginalizing and outright censoring then spewing mounds of hatred leads to a divided people.
The best social media I’ve ever been apart of is when I put on my shoes, walk out the front door, and go interact with the world in person. 👍
Yay, another UniSocials posting app…welcome to ThreadsBlueStadon, where we all rage quit X together. Their slogan, probably.
You can unsubscribe from the Bluesky moderation service if you don’t like it, and, even subscribe to alternate moderators.
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Good to know. But prefer not to have a subscription based app.
Have you moderated your own feed and avoided engaging with right wing content? I think many who dislike content on X are getting sucked into posts that enrage them and the algorithm feeds them more because that's what they interact with.
Whilst I am pretty confident it doesn’t just ‘work that way’ and the current twitter algorithm does indeed favour some trash on twitter… that said, it doesn’t really matter. The point is: you have no choice.
You do have choice on bluesky. You can pin feeds that follow rules you like, unsub the moderator service, and find another if you so wish. Ergo the implication that it’s some bubble-wrapped safety pen is… non-sense.
Technology, politics, whatever and what not:
Some people gets "all" "news" or info through one of these platforms (or through Google search), and the problem arises when the platforms promote a set of news/info and demotes another to feed people with "one truth" to move your opinion in a direction suiting them. People get a perspective based upon just a limited skewed picture, and scores of people have no idea how the platforms works/operates.
Then their moderation strategy promotes the same limited picture, and combined it generates ignorance (not idiots).
Tech, politics or whatever, "If communist read Financial TImes, if capitalist read Pravda" is still rather valid for all sorts of opinion.
Why would people want to use so many different platforms for essentially the same thing? I just opened an account on X and it's brilliant! Way better than old Twitter.
What I find is that Twitter pushes posts that are counter to what they think your political leanings are. Which people find infuriating...but actually is probably "better" than an echo chamber that is the ad-supported social-news model of mainstream media today. The plus side is that what infuriates you tend to gain more "reactions" from you. So they are definitely hacking you.
Gotta control it though, after some time you will find that it makes you sad, which is what people perceive to be toxic.
My "for you page" is VERY left leaning, which I often find infuriating after scrolling through it a while. Then I switch to Following only.
Well I got a ban for making fun of a spam poster for calling him a bot.
Lmao most ppl would disagre. It’s essentially a cesspool of bigotry and illegal p*rn and other spam and bs. The stuff I have seen on X accidentally is wild. I saw Liam Payne of one directions dead body on X. I wasn’t even looking up anything close to him lmao. I was looking up Yellowstone.
What does a cowboy show have to do with a sexy British man from a 2010s pop boy band reality show? lol
As well as why ppl use so many platforms? I can see why. People and the Ui matters. Some people want a less Wild West feel than X. Some ppl want a more smaller and intimate feeling. Someone want a mix of both.
We used to have multiple different platforms Bàck in the early 2000d that essentially did the same thing but different. Hi5, Friendster, MySpace and of course Facebook among others.
I actually appreciate having the choice bc then you run into a situation like YouTube where one platform literally has turned to crap but can get away with it bc there is no viable competitor
It’s no different than the 100 browsers we have currently and why ppl want to use more
Than just safari chrome or Firefox and instead use others. It’s all about Choice.
Why? Just because you hate social media doesn’t mean we all should.
You do realize forums like this are all social media as well right?
Lmao sounds about right.
Putting social media aside, competition to the dominant YouTube would be most welcome 🤗