Flash, sharing photo application for Bluesky, opens Beta

flashInstagram alternative built over the Bluesky Social Network, now opens its doors to the assembly test. It was announced a few weeks ago, the application provides people for a way out of the Meta Social Network Empire to get a more open alternative, with attracting new users who may not have been interested in using the official Bluesky app, which works more like X.

The Homes is designed by the Berlin -based developer, on the same basic protocol that runs Bluesky, in the protocol (or ATPROTO In short). As a Bluesky client, it supports photo posts up to four photos and videos of one minute. Users who publish on the gifts will also appear their posts on Bluesky, and comments on these publications will also appear on the gifts.

To work, Hluds Homes filter the Bluesky schedule for posts with photos and videos. Users can also switch between their Bluesky extracts inside flashes to see different observations of the social network.

As Vogelsang explained in January, he hopes to pull the flash of new arrivals to Bluesky who may not see themselves as a “person on Twitter”.

“This may give them an entry point to the network, in the entire protocol,” he said.

Flashes enables the trial version quickly thanks to the Vogelsang ability to reuse the previous App Skeets, a Bluesky client with a north of 30,000 users. By building above Bluesky, gifts also benefit from increased access to the start of social networks. Only last week, Blouse hit a milestone Of 30 million users and 1 billion jobs. Today, she has Almost 31 million users According to the API data for Bluesky developer.

Vogelsang, through both gifts and pursuit, aims to test features such as payment notifications, support multiple accounts, reference notifications, and user notifications. It later plans to add more photo editing options, support stories, and possibly dedicated profile pages.

In time, Vogelsang aims to integrate subscription features in all its applications, including a way to ensure that users do not have to pay twice while replacing them among his different customers.

Today, this customer list also includes Blues screenOne of the many applications that build a tiktok -like experience for Bluesky. Like gifts, BluesCreen was built on Bluesky at the present time, although Vogelsang explores the idea of ​​expanding to work with ATPROTO directly, allowing things like long videos.

Beta, which works on the Apple Testflight platform, is currently facing technical difficulties but Vogelsang says Apple’s engineering team Looking for the problem and works to reform. He saw the experimental version around it 3500 records Within the first hour, directly, indicating the health demand of consumers. A Beta registration form He also lives.

It should be noted that gifts are not the only application that considers an alternative to Instagram on an open protocol. Another bluscrade customer, Pinksky, already runningPixelfed recently launched mobile phone applications, which work on ActivityPub, which is also used by Mastodon.