Managing a social presence nowadays will be powerful. It’s even more durable for individuals who are experimenting with the brand new wave of Twitter-like providers, like Mastodon, Nostr and Bluesky, the place staying lively means a number of duplicate posts to completely different networks. Fortunately, builders are beginning to tackle our wants for cross-posting instruments. Along with scheduling providers like Fedica and Postpone, there’s now a brand new app, Nootti, that means that you can submit to Mastodon, Nostr and Bluesky from one interface.
Whereas we’re nonetheless awaiting the launch of multi-service social networking and information trackers, like Tapestry, Nootti’s iOS app can at the least prevent some effort whenever you need to share a submit together with your followers throughout three of the extra fashionable Twitter/X alternate options. Plus, utilizing Apple’s native “Share via…” choice, you possibly can cross-post that very same message to some other apps you select, like X or Meta’s Threads. (A intelligent workaround given Threads’ API isn’t but open and X’s is simply too costly for indie builders to make use of.)
Nootti, whose identify is Finnish for “note,” is pretty bare-bones. It received’t supply all of the bells and whistles that include posting instantly on the platforms themselves, like the flexibility so as to add polls and alt textual content on photographs, or get hashtag recommendations, as on Mastodon. Nonetheless, if in case you have a easy textual content (or text-plus-media) submit, Nootti is succesful. As you kind into the textual content entry field, Nootti counts what number of characters you will have left. You may also add media out of your Digital camera Roll, in the event you select, then faucet the envelope icon to ship the submit on its manner.
To make use of Nootti, you’ll first should configure your accounts within the settings. (Notice that you need to use an app password for Bluesky, as an alternative of your predominant password, though that choice isn’t spelled out within the app.)
What makes Nootti compelling is that you may simply customise every submit barely for the completely different platforms. To take action, you first kind your submit within the “Main” tab, then swap over to the tabs for the opposite social networks. The submit shall be mechanically crammed in on every tab, however you possibly can edit the message for the person networks. For example, you would possibly take a extra playful air together with your posts on Bluesky, whereas including hashtags to your posts on Mastodon. Once you hit the envelope icon, the custom-made set of messages is revealed to all three networks directly.
Developer Petri Kajander says he constructed Nootti for himself.
“The current state of social media is defragmentation and, if you just wait, it will not change the status quo. You need to be active to be part of the change,” he says. “A lot of people have stopped posting altogether or they are only in one place. This means that you have to extend your presence to multiple places but it takes too much time. Since none of the networks is a clear winner, the best strategy is to post to multiple places, but keep the engagement local to that network and also to customize each post to each platform,” Kajander provides.
He explains that he doesn’t consider in auto-posting both, which is why he wished an app that requires you to jot down your individual posts.
Nootti is a free obtain on the App Retailer, however Kajander is now growing the paid model, he says, though he hasn’t but landed on what income mannequin it’s going to use.
Kajander mentioned he additionally hasn’t decided about supporting different networks, like Threads, or even when that shall be required, as soon as it turns into a federated app utilizing the ActivityPub protocol. Within the meantime, you possibly can cross-post to some other app with the share button inside Nootti as an alternative.