Tapbots, the developer behind the well-loved Tweetbot and Ivory apps for Twitter and Mastodon, is engaged on an iOS and Mac app for Bluesky called Phoenix, as noticed by MacStories. The corporate plans to launch the app this summer season and says it’s going to open a “restricted public alpha as quickly as we are able to.”
This isn’t a transfer away from Mastodon; after Phoenix is out, Tapbots plans to develop each Ivory and Phoenix concurrently. “Mastodon is our residence on the social internet and we’ll proceed to speculate our time there,” Tapbots says in a Q&A on the Phoenix touchdown web page. “Because the unimaginable development of Bluesky up to now 12 months, our buyer base has turn out to be break up between the 2 companies and for us to proceed to thrive as an organization, we should assist each. Sadly, we are able to’t survive on Mastodon alone.”
The corporate provides that “Mastodon is our residence base and we imagine in ActivityPub as the way forward for the social internet. We simply hope it will possibly proceed to develop.”
Tapbots will provide a method to cross-post between each Mastodon and Bluesky, however it says that “whereas there could also be some conveniences of an app that helps a number of social media protocols, we imagine the expertise shall be significantly better general if we hold them separate.”