While this decline of X (formerly Twitter) under Elon Musk is certainly good news for Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon alternatives, it also poses the challenge to the early adopters who have too many places to post. Of course, some entrepreneurs are coming up with solutions to these problems through apps that would let you cross-post onto multiple platforms at once. One of those apps, Openvibe, just got itself even more useful, now that it added support for Meta's Threads, the X competitor from Instagram.
Launched earlier this summer, Openvibe at first made it possible to stay connected with friends and followers across Mastodon, Nostr, and Bluesky by allowing you to view posts in a combined timeline and cross-post to the different networks at once.

Like the app Trillian once did that aggregated instant messaging networks like AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo!

All does in one place so I can easily chat via services like Google Talk and the others, Openvibe does the same with those many social networks seeking to be new places to "tweet". With a mission to open to a friendly, "easy-to-use gateway to open social web", CEO at Openvibe says there are already networks which form a whole open web-ActivityPub (Mastodon, Threads), AT Protocol (Bluesky), and Nostr among others.

Although some bridges are currently already being constructed across these networks, they might also consume more servers, mirror accounts, and user opt-in, Svancer said. He thought this wasn't the best direction for action and that a straightforward application of cross-posting would really make it easier to breach the barrier of entry in using the system for any new user.

"I believe open social space can challenge the legacy social media, if united," the founder stated earlier to TechCrunch.

As per the newly rolled out features across openvibe and on iOS and Android this week in the form of added Threads support, users can be able to login in from an account cross post and be able to reply across those different networks; users, as well may also be capable of following individuals on unified feed from the all listed above networks besides finding some sort of suggested follower in return for each, as puts forward Svancer.

He added that even though it was still "very limited, "Openvibe was able to leverage all possible benefits offered by the Threads API and come up with an app where one gets an excellent experience for a costless user, also advertisement-free app. He indicated that it is expected to be fully implemented as well with features coming on after subsequent development.

Openvibe has directed a couple of users to its support documentation when they reported they could not get the application to work. In any case, this documentation also implies that OAuth won't work correctly some of the time and that specific troubleshooting is necessary to get it going again. (We could successfully add Threads, while testing.)

However, the new release also bears a few bug fixes coupled with an updated post-composition flow that Openvibe described as "smooth and reliable."

The free application can be downloaded in the iOS or Android devices while the desktop version is likely to come later, just as an experiment. Having revenue generation in mind, the application will incorporate later a subscription plan which as of yet has not occurred. Openvibe isn't the only cross-posting app to discuss solving the problem of alt-Twitters. Besides a more professional offerings toward the social media marketer, another consumer-facing app with support for cross-posting into Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon is Croissant; however, the service does already have its subscription plan starting at $2.99 per month.