Cannot determine between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti’s new app permits you to put up to all three

Managing a social presence as of late could be robust. It’s even harder for many who are experimenting with the brand new wave of Twitter-like companies, like Mastodon, Nostr, and Bluesky, the place staying lively means a variety of duplicate posts to totally different networks. Fortunately, builders are beginning to tackle our wants for cross-posting instruments. Along with scheduling companies like Fedica and Postpone, there’s now a brand new app, Nootti, that lets you put up 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 not less than prevent some effort if you wish to share a put up along with your followers throughout three of the extra fashionable Twitter/X alternate options. Plus, utilizing Apple’s native “Share via…” choice, you may cross-post that very same message to another apps, you select, like X or Meta’s Threads. (A intelligent workaround given Threads’ API just isn’t but open and X’s is too expensive for indie builders to make use of.)

Nootti, whose title is Finnish for “note,” is pretty bare-bones. It gained’t supply all of the bells and whistles that include posting straight on the platforms themselves, like the flexibility so as to add polls and alt textual content on photographs, or get hashtag options, as on Mastodon. Nonetheless, when you have a easy textual content (or text-plus-media) put up, Nootti is succesful. As you sort into the textual content entry field, Nootti counts what number of characters you could have left. You can even add media out of your Digicam Roll, when you select, then faucet the envelope icon to ship the put up on its manner.

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To make use of Nootti, you’ll first need to configure your accounts within the settings. (Word that you should utilize an app password for Bluesky, as a substitute of your foremost password, regardless that that choice isn’t spelled out within the app.)

What makes Nootti compelling is that you could simply customise every put up barely for the totally different platforms. To take action, you first sort your put up within the “Main” tab, then swap over to the tabs for the opposite social networks. The put up might be routinely crammed in on every tab, however you may edit the message for the person networks. For example, you would possibly take a extra playful air along with your posts on Bluesky, whereas including hashtags to your posts on Mastodon. Whenever you hit the envelope icon, the personalized set of messages is revealed to all three networks without delay.

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 s 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 put in writing your individual posts.

Nootti is a free download on the App Store, however Kajander is now growing the paid model, he says, though he hasn’t but landed on what income mannequin it can use.

Kajander stated he additionally hasn’t decided about supporting different networks, like Threads, or even when that might be required, as soon as it turns into a federated app utilizing the ActivityPub protocol. Within the meantime, you may cross-post to another app with the share button inside Nootti as a substitute.