Tweetbot’s developers are making a Bluesky client

Tapbots, the developer down the well-loved Tweetbot and Ivory apps for Twitter and Mastodon, is moving connected an iOS and Mac app for Bluesky called Phoenix, arsenic spotted by MacStories. The institution plans to merchandise the app this summertime and says it will unfastened a “limited nationalist alpha arsenic soon arsenic we can.”

This isn’t a move distant from Mastodon; aft Phoenix is out, Tapbots plans to create some Ivory and Phoenix concurrently. “Mastodon is our location connected the societal web and we will proceed to put our clip there,” Tapbots says successful a Q&A connected the Phoenix landing page. “Since the unthinkable maturation of Bluesky successful the past year, our customer guidelines has go divided betwixt the 2 services and for america to proceed to thrive arsenic a company, we must support both. Unfortunately, we can’t past connected Mastodon alone.”

The institution adds that “Mastodon is our location guidelines and we judge successful ActivityPub arsenic the early of the societal web. We conscionable dream it tin proceed to grow.”

Tapbots will connection a measurement to cross-post betwixt some Mastodon and Bluesky, but it says that “while location whitethorn beryllium immoderate conveniences of an app that supports aggregate societal media protocols, we judge the acquisition will beryllium overmuch amended wide if we support them separate.”