I’ve been a massive fan of The Iconfactory for years, both admiring and purchasing a number of their products. When they announced a project intended to aggregate the ever splintering social web and RSS feeds, I was immediately interested. So I was backer 214 of Project Tapestry, and pleased that it exceeded its goal. I’d backed prior projects so I was confident they’d deliver.
And they did…but I kinda didn’t gel with it for most of the past year. I should be an ideal user: I still use RSS (much love to NetNewsWire), and I still (as an elder millennial) believe in the value of text-based social networks, with accounts I like to follow on Bluesky and Mastodon.
I’m not sure what made it work; maybe the implementation of cross-talk filtering (I’m just as guilty of cross-posting—and it will happen when this publishes to my website!), maybe it was the realization I was spending too much time bouncing around between multiple apps. But for the past week I’ve been using Tapestry in place of Ivory (an app I still love), the native Bluesky app, and NetNewsWire. I’m not going to pretend this leads to less time on social media, but I do feel slightly less addled, and it’s nice to see everything in one place.