Photo sharing application for Bluesky opens beta

HeadlightsInstagram alternative on the BlueSky social network, now opens its doors to beta testers. Declared A few weeks ago, The application offers a tool for attracting new users who can not be interested in using the social network empire of the social networking empire, as well as new users who can not be interested in using the official application of Bluesky.

Berlin based developer is built by Sebastian Vogelsang, Flashes, in the same basic protocol, protocol (or atproto for short). As a client Bluesky, the length supports the length of four images and videos up to one minute. Users who wrote lanterns will also appear in Bluesky, and comments on these articles will also appear.

Firters to work are burnt for messages with photos and videos of Bluesky’s photographs and videos. Users can pass between their Bluesky broadcasts within flashes to see different views of the social network.

As Vogelsang explained in January, he hopes that he would take newcomers to the Bluesy who never saw a “Twitter man.”

“It can give them an entry point to the network, all protocol,” he said.

Lanterns, the Bluesky client in northern 30,000 users, the BlueSky client can quickly use the BlueSky customer to reuse the code quickly. By building on the Bluesky, it turns off and benefits from the growing system of social networking. Last week, Bluesky hit a stage 30 million users and 1 billion posts. I have today About 31 million users According to the information tracked through the BlueSky’s Developer API.

It is aimed at both flash and skate, vogelsang, push notifications, multiple scores, features such as support for bookmarks, bookmarks and user notifications. Later, more images plan to support editing options, stories and perhaps custom profile pages.

In the timely manner, VogelSang is to enter the subscription characteristics, including the fact that users should not have to pay twice as they cross between different customers.

Today also includes the list of customers BluescreenOne of the many applications is a Experience like tiktok for Bluesky. Like Flashes, Bluesskreen, BlueSkreen is this time, although Vogelsang explores the idea of ​​expanding both directly to work with ATProto, which allows things like longer videos.

Beta Flash, which works on Apple’s TestFlight platform, currently in technical difficulties Vogelsang says Apple’s engineering group Looks at the problem and works on an adjustment. Had seen around the beta 3500 Introduction Shows a healthy consumer request in the first hour. One Registration form for beta lives too.

Bids do not have to think about building an alternative instagram in the opening protocol. Another Bluesky photos client, Pinksky, already up and runningand Recently launched Pixelfed mobile appsRunning in the actionPUB protocol used by Mastodon.