Indigo brings the open social web to one app

Trying to get disconnected billionaire-owned societal media, but don’t cognize wherever to start? A caller app called Indigo is launching contiguous to fto users research the unfastened societal web crossed aggregate services, each nether 1 roof.

Decentralized societal media is having a moment, arsenic much radical recognize they privation power implicit their algorithms, feeds, moderation choices, and different aspects of participating successful online communities. However, determination are aggregate paths to take from. Users tin opt for decentralized servers that marque up the societal web Mastodon, built connected the older ActivityPub protocol (also present utilized by Meta’s Threads), oregon they tin articulation the newer societal web Bluesky, which runs connected the AT Protocol.

Indigo doesn’t unit radical to choose. Instead, the app brings the abstracted societal networks unneurotic successful 1 seamless experience, with a unified timeline that syncs crossed devices and a composer that lets users cross-post to some services astatine once.

The app is designed by Soapbox Software — the aforesaid squad that developed the cross-posting instrumentality Croissant, which offers an casual mode to station to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads from 1 interface. Indigo co-creator Ben McCarthy, who besides developed the Obscura apps and others, noted to TechCrunch that the caller app was built connected the team’s erstwhile acquisition with Croissant, portion besides adding caller features that marque it a large standalone app for users of some unfastened societal networks.

When utilizing Indigo, you tin separate Bluesky from Mastodon posts successful your timeline: Bluesky profiles are outlined successful blue, portion Mastodon profiles look successful purple

The app besides includes different tools and features, including options that fto users automatically scroll to the apical arsenic caller posts arrive, fell NSFW content, mute users oregon keywords, filter which replies you see, alteration a acheronian mode, and more.

Plus, you tin entree each your customized feeds and lists from crossed some societal networks done the app’s “more” menu, way your notifications crossed some services, and hunt crossed Bluesky and Mastodon utilizing Indigo’s cosmopolitan search.

The quality to cross-post, sync timelines crossed devices, and way trends crossed the networks requires a paid subscription of either $4.99 per period oregon $34.99 per year. (There’s besides a $119.99 one-time acquisition enactment for those dedicated to the unfastened societal web.) Currently, Indigo works crossed iPhone, iPad, and Mac.