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How I Use My RSS Feed for Bluesky and Mastodon
It’s understandable if you’re a little burnt out on social media at the moment. I put off setting up a Bluesky account for years, mostly because I didn’t want yet another service to think about. At the same time, though, a lot of interesting people have shifted their posting to alternative sites like Bluesky account. The good news: you can…
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You Can Now Follow Mastodon Users on Threads (Sort Of)
Threads users can finally follow Mastodon accounts—sort of. The change, part of Thread’s multi-year plan to integrate with the Fediverse, means it’s now possible to find Mastodon and other compatible social media accounts in Threads. You can also click the follow button, though not much will happen if you do—posts from those accounts don’t show up in Threads, either in…
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Use ‘Bridgy Fed’ to Connect Mastodon and Bluesky
The Great Twitter Exodus of 2022 is still happening. It’s just a little…fractured. A lot of X power users migrated to Bluesky early on, which paved the way for a flood of folks to join that service in 2024. Meanwhile, a lot of technically inclined individuals are still hanging out on Mastodon (at least, that’s where I hang out). Bluesky…
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Croissant Is an iPhone App That Posts to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky at Once
Social media has been weird—well, weirder—ever since the death of Twitter. Those of us who have moved on from X have been forced to search out our friends on on some combination of Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads, and while there’s some hope that all these services will eventually be joined together in the Fediverse, right now they’re only kind of…
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Use ‘Tusks’ to Turn Mastodon Into a Threaded Blog
Threading is an art form. Replying to your own posts allows you to compile a bunch of information in one place or keep commenting on something that’s ongoing. Threading is also very clumsy: you need to dig up your own posts and reply to them. Tusks is a Mac and iOS application for Mastodon users who really, really like making…
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