The best Bluesky & Mastodon Crossposter on iOS! But a few issues with threads
This has been my crossposter of choice for Bluesky & Mastodon. It's a great, content-focused experience, which I appreciate. I do have a few gripes though:
As mentioned by another reviewer, handling multiple accounts can be confusing—i have multiple accounts on various mastodon instances all sharing the same base username, and it is pretty much impossible to decipher which is which. Account nicknames, or at least an option to see the whole account name would be essential here.
Second, threading can get messed up pretty easily. This is especially true if there are any posting errors in any of the accounts—if that happens, then you've basically gotten a broken thread on that service; attempting to retry it will just repost it on the other accounts, creating duplicates. I wish there was a way to just retry posting on the error'd account.
Related to this, trying to continue threads via the archive can lead to strange results. When trying to restart a thread, sometimes it will repost the whole thread, but in reverse order, leading to a lot of deletions, and again, a broken thread.
I know these aren't easy problems to solve for, but my dream is a threading system similar to tweetbot's from long ago, where I could store a list of ongoing threads that I could return to post to periodically, easily and without issue.
That said, currently this is the best crossposting app I've found. I hope development continues, and these issues get addressed. I'm extremely appreciative of the devs' work in this niche space!
As mentioned by another reviewer, handling multiple accounts can be confusing—i have multiple accounts on various mastodon instances all sharing the same base username, and it is pretty much impossible to decipher which is which. Account nicknames, or at least an option to see the whole account name would be essential here.
Second, threading can get messed up pretty easily. This is especially true if there are any posting errors in any of the accounts—if that happens, then you've basically gotten a broken thread on that service; attempting to retry it will just repost it on the other accounts, creating duplicates. I wish there was a way to just retry posting on the error'd account.
Related to this, trying to continue threads via the archive can lead to strange results. When trying to restart a thread, sometimes it will repost the whole thread, but in reverse order, leading to a lot of deletions, and again, a broken thread.
I know these aren't easy problems to solve for, but my dream is a threading system similar to tweetbot's from long ago, where I could store a list of ongoing threads that I could return to post to periodically, easily and without issue.
That said, currently this is the best crossposting app I've found. I hope development continues, and these issues get addressed. I'm extremely appreciative of the devs' work in this niche space!
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Great in idea, but kinda janky
I greatly appreciate the idea of an app for posting to Bluesky and Mastodon at once, as well as in general a posting-only app so I can make posts but avoid looking at my timeline.
However I have brought up the problem of Mastodon posts being capped to 500 characters several times. Despite being acknowledged as an issue since some Mastodon instances permit more than 500 characters, as of the current version, posts are still capped at 500 characters.
However I have brought up the problem of Mastodon posts being capped to 500 characters several times. Despite being acknowledged as an issue since some Mastodon instances permit more than 500 characters, as of the current version, posts are still capped at 500 characters.
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has become unusable
this app used to be much better, but the transitions between views have become so slow it is entirely unusable
Approved by this French gal
I mostly use mastodon, but also have a Bluesky account so I can keep in touch with friends only on that platform. Croissant makes it super easy to post (and thread!) on both platforms, and does it in style too. Very much recommended!
Monthly Subscription
They expect you to pay a rather ridiculous monthly subscription, to use FREE Mastodon, a FOSS service, as well as BlueSky and Threads, if anyone cares. I can see a 1 time fee for your coding work. Subscription, LOL. Nope.
