🗂️Keep in Mind This Free App Combines Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon Into One Feed

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Replacing X is an ongoing project. Bluesky is currently the network growing the fastest, but both Threads and Mastodon have had growth spurts in the past few years. If you're like me, there are people you want to follow in all three places.

Luckily, there are ways to do this. We've talked about how to connect Mastodon and Bluesky, and how to follow Threads users from Mastodon. Both of those solutions, however, depend on the people you want to follow actively enabling or setting up an integration, and even then only kind of work. OpenVibe is, for most people, a better answer at this point.

This free application for iOS and Android lets you sign into Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads, among other services, allowing you to scroll through posts and notifications from all those services in one place. When you install the application, you're asked to sign into your accounts for every service you want to use. From there, you can scroll through a combined timeline. A badge will let you know which network a given post is coming from and you can like, boost, and reply to posts just like you would if you were in the native app.

Credit: Justin Pot

There are some obvious potential complications here. For one thing: if you follow the same person on three networks, you might see duplicate posts, depending on whether the people you're following tend to cross-post. And you can't cross re-post—that is, there's no streamlined way to share a Threads post with your Bluesky followers. Still, it's nice to be able to browse everything at once.

And there's support for more than just the combined timeline: you can add a combined Trending timeline that pulls from all your social networks, browse your Bluesky Discover feed, or scroll through the local timeline of your Mastodon server. You can write posts and publish them on all the social networks you've added. You can also disable posting to a certain account if you'd rather be a lurker on that network.

Credit: Justin Pot

This application isn't perfect. There's no desktop version, for one thing, even though I was able to install the iPad version on my Mac. And using it requires a lot of actively thinking about which network you're interacting with. Even so, if you're tired of switching between three different social apps, it's worth a try.
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