A crossposting life hack

This is such a silly thing but it helps me out a lot:

I got into a habit of defaulting to posting on Threads, which was great! But I started neglecting other places online like Bluesky & LinkedIn, and I’m keen to try out Mastodon more. So I made a little shortcut to gradually fix my habit, using Buffer’s iOS shortcuts support to take any Threads post I forgot to crosspost elsewhere and quickly do that.

The steps:

1. I post something to Threads and forget to crosspost it with Buffer
   
2. I tap & hold on the post and select “copy”
   
3. I pull down the control center menu and tap the Shortcut icon
   
4. The shortcut asks me where I want to cross-post it to
   
5. Once I pick which platforms, it handles all the queueing up for me
   
6. Either instantly, or in a few hours if I want to pre-schedule the post, it’s there

You can download the shortcut here. It’s tailored to my specific use case (text posts syndicated to the profiles I’m trying to build a little presence on), and won’t work for your of the box, but you can customize it to your liking in the Shortcuts app. Note that it requires the Buffer iOS app to work 😜

Here’s a fancy video showing it in action:

This is such a silly thing but it helps me out a lot: I got into a habit of defaulting to posting on Threads, which was great! But I started neglecting other places online (like Bluesky 😜 ), and I'm keen to try out Mastodon more... so I made a little shortcut to gradually fix my habit:

— brandon aka kid lightbulbs (@bgreen.lol) 2025-05-14T10:58:23.652Z

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