More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a

Follow Meta's fact-checking changes, Bluesky is creating Flashes, a photo sharing app that could potentially replace Instagram for many.

Bluesky is the hot new internet hangout for the people who got a little tired of all the horrible stuff that’s been happening on Twitter/X over the past couple of years. And now it could end up forming the basis of a new Instagram competitor, for anybody that isn’t happy about Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s sudden pivot to more right-wing politics.

Bluesky has launched Flashes, a new free photo and video-sharing app that aims to challenge the major social media platforms and offer users a decentralised alternative.

An independent developer is working on a new Instagram-like app based on Bluesky called Flashes that will release in the coming weeks.

The popularity of Bluesky, the open-source social media platform with over 27 million users, continues to soar as it taps into the growing demand for decentralised platforms. Bluesky is now supporting Flashes, a new photo-sharing app developed independently but powered by the AT Protocol—an open and decentralised network technology.

Love Bluesky, but wish you had an Instagram alternative too? See how the Flashes app may be exactly what you need.

Bluesky is becoming an X replacement. Now Instagram is also under attack. Flashes app becomes a platform for photos.

Bluesky, the decentralized social network, is gearing up to expand its offerings with a new photo-sharing app called Flashes. The app is being developed by Sebastian Vogelsang, an independent developer from Berlin who previously worked on Skeets, another Bluesky client.