Earlier this year, The Iconfactory launched a new social feeds app called Tapestry. The app pulls together Bluesky, Mastodon, and other feeds into a unified timeline. And Tapestry’s latest addition, Crosstalk, solves an especially annoying quirk of our fractured social app landscape: duplicate posts.
Crosstalk removes duplicate posts from your Tapestry timeline across Bluesky, Mastodon, more
Tapestry version 1.1 just arrived on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.
The update is packed with a bunch of new features, but there’s one in particular that stood out to me.
That feature is called Crosstalk.
Here’s The Iconfactory’s description:
Tapestry’s new Crosstalk feature automatically finds and muffles similar posts across multiple feeds to help keep your timeline free of duplicates. The app identifies repeated text and flags it so you don’t have to waste time reading stuff you’ve already seen as you scroll through your timeline.
It’s super handy when you follow an author across multiple services like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Micro.blog and see the same post over and over again.
Following the same people across multiple services—and thus seeing duplicate posts from them—has been one of my top issues with modern social media.
Top comment by Mawthra
I tried Mastodon and Bluesky and sadly they are both equally as toxic as Twitter in the opposite direction and I dare anyone to say otherwise. Not even being logged in, the main feed Bluesky presents you is filled with uber left leaning rants, Mastodon is worse because it's not as pervasive so you get even more one sided over there. I don't need to go over Twitter because we all know how that is.
My advice? Skip them all and talk to your close friends and go outside more often and unplug.
But Tapestry solves that by letting you remove duplicate posts entirely.
If you don’t want to go that far, you can also “muffle” the posts, which keeps them in the timeline but minimized so you can easily skip past them.
Personally though, I love the idea of removing duplicates altogether. And it seems like Tapestry has implemented the feature in a really clever way, so that even posts that differ in minor ways (owing to different services’ requirements) can be flagged as duplicates.
What do you think of Tapestry’s new Crosstalk feature? Is this something you’ve been missing from social media? Let us know in the comments.
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