Flashes: Bluesky’s Photo Sharing Alternative to Meta’s Instagram

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own-photo-sharing-app-flashes/

Will unsurprisingly be powered by AT protocol.  Since it is being billed as a non-Instagram clone (also seemingly more limited), I guess we will see.  Basically, Pixelfed still sounds better but in similar fashion, not enough users being drawn to that decentralized photo sharing platform.  It really requires a catalyst of something that users can latch on to move away from the established platforms or to at least stake out a new presence on these alternative decentralized platforms.

It is still nice there are alternative developments that can provide some level of feature parity (also important to have a decentralized means to get away from the ones that are now controlled by oligarchs and bootlickers like Zuckerberg).

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