Anyone who is looking for an alternative to Instagram may have a suitable candidate in FlashesA recently launched application built on Bluesky, which seems to be right for all important grounds. Technically released in the App Store on February 24, but a series of updates issued during the day after launch, simplified the application.
If you remember Instagram before Meta turned it into a Facebook replacement, you have the main essence of the fact that Flaches. This is a photo to exchange photos and videos, with some wrinkles with the taste of Bluesky, like Several user channels Choose from a choice, not a default option controlled by an algorithm.
When you first open the FlaShes, you will be invited to enter the system with Bluesky accounting or create a new one to use exclusively using outbreaks. If you use your existing account, the application is essentially re -equipping images and videos from who you are now following in the Instagram channel. This setting also works in the opposite direction: any post that you apply to outbreaks will also be displayed in your usual Bluesky text FIDE.
The application itself includes several tabs with a home tab for your channels, a search tab, where you can look for posts and view trend topics, a highlighted tab for creating new messages, the notification tab, which shows all your Bluesky notifications and the profile tab. Flashes includes some filters for using your photos, as well as some user channels that you can use if you want, but otherwise the settings are minimal. This is really an image and video, focused on Bluesky video. This goes with some annoying shortcomings, although. If you receive a lot of notifications about Bluesky, you will now get them twice, once in the Bluesky application and once in flashes. If you delete your account from one application, it will also be removed from another.
The creation of a more customizable, portable version of social networks, which does not block you on one platform, is a large part According to the protocol And what applications do Mastodon love and Thread Trying to do with Activitypub. It is unclear whether one standard will become by default, but Bluezsky is gaining momentum. The application hit 20 million users in November 2024, which caused a dramatic Expanding his efforts on moderationAnd then passed 30 million users In January 2025. Flash design means that all these new Bluesky accounts are also potential outbreaks of users.