A few days ago I built a small terminal tool for cross-posting to Mastodon, Twitter and Bluesky: socialsox-tui. You pop open a terminal, type your thought, send it. Done. No browser, no feed, no related posts. Even supports images and video.
It came together fast because I’d already done the hard part for a previous project: the cross-posting API wrangling, image and video support. Porting it to the terminal took an afternoon.
The workflow is simple enough that it changed how I think about posting. Have a thought? Bind the thing to a hotkey, send it off, get back to work. If someone replies, deal with it later. The feed isn’t pulling you anywhere because there is no feed.
Which is the part that keeps striking me as obvious in hindsight. Social media is just text going from A to B. Images and video sometimes. That’s all it ever was. The almighty algo, the hearts, the analytics dashboard, the notification badge—none of that is load-bearing. It’s just the stuff platforms bolted on to keep you from leaving, so they could sell another 2% increase in user stickiness to advertisers while the C-suite books its digital detox to the Bahamas.
FOSS / MIT license
Github repo: github.com/burninc0de/socialsox-tui
