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

[Mac Fly (film)]

Gruber, Viticci and I suspect the others are doing just fine outside of the cesspool formerly known as twitter. I celebrate their integrity and clear demonstration that decency and their values are more important than social media following.

Gruber still posts on X regularly.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

I seem to recall people saying the same thing about Myspace when this little thing called Facebook started catching on.

It turns out that when a company alienates a lot of its users, things don't go so well. Who would have guessed?

X has nearly 1B users though. BS has 15M.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

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Hello from the grave!

As was the case with Tom, I don't think the second half of your statement will age well.

X has one of the better UX on social media, if you ask me. MySpace was always a terrible UI and got beat in large part by better interfaces.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

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

 

[sjjones]

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.

So how do you expect them to make money?

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Nobody cares about Gruber. He is still delusional after the election.

He still uses X.

 

[SoldOnApple]

So like existing social media managers/posting system, only for fringe social media instead of the usual likes of X/FB/IG?

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

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 mind virus is the term used now. Almost incurable. US media has a lot to answer for.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

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.

I have noticed that more so lately. Yes.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Putting social media aside, competition to the dominant YouTube would be most welcome 🤗

There's Rumble, but the YouTube UX is just way better.

 

[zilchfox]

I’m enjoying Bluesky for sure, don’t really have a reason to post on Threads or Mastodon— and have quit Twitter.

 

[kitKAC]

He still uses X.

His account is mostly retweets, he seems far more active on other platforms.

 

[Mr. Heckles]

Openvibe (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openvibe-mastodon-bluesky/id1666230916) allows folks to do this without the $3/month fee.

The ratings are worse than Croissant. You’re also paying with something if they aren’t charging you cash to use it.

 

[rafark]

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.

Sounds great in theory, but how do you expect them to make money? Running a big site is extremely expensive

 

[ScottishDuck]

I prefer unfiltered over sanitized, myself. To each their own!

Elon is actively silencing people on the side he doesn’t like. Hardly “unfiltered”.

 

[Levo317]

It just normal for the developers to charge for their effort. But I believe that this fee should be paid or heavily subsidized by the platforms since it will benefit them.

 

[dannyyankou]

Sounds great in theory, but how do you expect them to make money? Running a big site is extremely expensive

We'll cross that bridge when we get there. But it's great now.

 

[heretiq]

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.

X is ad-supported. Fb is ad supported. Instagram is ad-supported. That is the beginning of problem.

In the race to show greater ROAS to advertisers, innovation on each platform is focused on methods to get users to like / click / engage more with ads — which leads to weaponized A/B testing to determine and perfect methods and means to hijack the attention and thought process of every user, engineering contexts to maximize engagement (e.g., feeding opposing viewpoints to unsympathetic groups and pitting groups against each other) and ultimately ad placement to drive ROAS, while misleading users into believing they are exercising free will when engaging on what is actually a coercion platform.

This is an absolutely evil system because it traps users in an orchestrated cage match while brainwashing them into believing they have the keys to the cage — when the truth is that only the platform managers and advertisers have keys.

BlueSky is not ad-supported so it is not motivated to employ these corrosive tactics that lead to the toxicity on full display on X and other similar ad-supported platforms.

However, ad-supported media is not inherently evil — we’ve had and continue to have relatively non-corrosive ad-supported media. It’s the convergence of ad-supported media and ROAS-optimized algorithmic feeds that create the conditions for the exceptionally toxic behaviors we can all see on fb, X and other similar platforms.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

His account is mostly retweets, he seems far more active on other platforms.

Fair, but if he reposts that means he's reading those posts. Recently he's been posting and quoting, too.

 

[Albright]

I guess I'll be the guy to fruitlessly remind everyone that Mastodon is one (the most popular by far, but just one) of several front ends to a decentralized network of servers commonly called the Fediverse. Other front ends include Pleroma, Soapbox, and Misskey. Referring to the Fediverse as "Mastodon" or the "Mastodon network" is like referring to the world wide web as "Chrome," or, for a more direct but less timely example, referring to IRC as "mIRC."

 

[jjrtiger]

X is undoubtedly still the largest, but I think it has become a very toxic and negative place. The replies section on this post, for example, is full of hostility, racism, crude jokes, and memes. I don't know who finds joy in that sort of thing, but it isn't me. I'd rather read positive things and get along with people.

I did not know Blue Sky had only positive things. I’ll check it out!

 

[gleepskip]

I did not know Blue Sky had only positive things. I’ll check it out!

Everything is Awesome at Bluesky!

Bluesky moves deeper into moderation hell.

 

[Jensend]

Actually you can say whatever you want there, if not against the law it is not censored

Posting the location of Elon's jet is not against the law. It is censored on X. Note that I'm not arguing that posting the location of his jet should be allowed, but I am simply giving a counterexample to your claim.

 

[heretiq]

Sounds great in theory, but how do you expect them to make money? Running a big site is extremely expensive

Subscriptions or ads without manipulative algorithmic feeds can work. Fortunately the BlueSky founders have seen the full lifecycle of social media networks -- the challenges, options, management choices and the resulting financial and societal impact of those choices. If they have good intentions they have a decent shot at charting a course that works and achieves better financial and societal results than past attempts.

 

[0423MAC]

Subscriptions or ads without manipulative algorithmic feeds can work. Fortunately the BlueSky founders have seen the full lifecycle of social media networks -- the challenges, management choices options and the resulting financial and societal impact of past choices. If they have good intentions they have a decent shot at charting a course that works and achieves better financial and societal results than past attempts.

I believe we need a drastically different approach to social media so that the discovery feeds are not the center of attention, but it's just so damn profitable.