With the recent launch of Threads I thought this would be a good time to go over the social apps that I’m currently using along with what my current Home Screen looks like.
Social Apps
I use two messaging apps, iMessage for most chats (of course) and Telegram for a few group messages between friends without iPhones (of course…).
Similarly, I use two photo apps. Instagram is where I post iPhone and “real” camera photos for friends and family and anyone else who feels like following me. Those posts also forward to Facebook which I don’t really use for anything else. I’m also on Glass where I look for inspiration from other photographers and share a smaller selection of my favorite shots.
Next up is Discord. I initially joined a weird variety of discord servers as part of a few Patreon perks but I primarily spend time on a private server of people that met elsewhere before forming their own community. It’s a great space and everyone is very comfortable discussing pretty much any topic - and it’s where I’ve developed some of my closest friendships online.
Finally, the one that started this train of thought… Threads. Before Threads I was on Twitter for 16 years. From high school to post-college. Twitter Jack was definitely the weirdest Jack most likely due to the time periods that I was there for. Once that started falling apart I jumped ship for Mastodon in late 2022. Mastodon is a cool concept with a lot of great intentions but I struggled to find people to follow and missed a lot of groups and individuals that I had followed on Twitter. Threads definitely solved that problem with the sheer quantity of users that immediately flocked there and it was almost too easy to follow people since it imports directly from Instagram and immediately started suggesting a lot of the same people that I had on Mastodon and Twitter. It’s definitely the popular place now, we’ll just see if it lasts.
Home Screen
So what’s on my Home Screen? I’ve got two widget locations. A stack with Weather and Box Box (a Formula 1 app) on top and Fantastical off to the side. From there I have a lot of the standard apps and all of the ones I mentioned above. Safari, Photos, Maps, Telegram, Discord, Drafts (where I’m typing this), Instagram, Glass, Reeder, and Matter. My dock currently consists of Music, Messages, Mail, and Threads.
