I’d love if you guys created your own lexicons for posts so that I can decide whether I want to use my bsky posts, pinksky posts or both on my profile. I’d personally like to keep posts separated between mediums.
Would also allow for some bespoke features in the future.
Any photo I post is really small, like the one I left on my profile grid. I tried several different pics (different file sizes, different ratios). What am I doing wrong?
Also, is the automatic cross-posting to bluesky necessary? I'd like to choose what I'm going to share on what platforms, especially if you have different accessibility options than bluesky
Is there a way to make Pinsky's audience private while allowing Bluesky to be public? For personal security, I would like to share a family site that I don't want to share with the world.
@metaflame.dev pretty cool for a first release I think, and very similar to what we were discussing (it uses #pinkskyPost to allow control over posts shown on your profile and feed in the app if you choose, and hopefully will move to using an outline hashtag in the future)
I'd love to see more use of custom lexicons (and, likewise, support for other lexicons on Bluesky)
Sidecar lexicons or extending existing lexicons is less ideal, but maybe we can work out a proper spec for additional attached fields and properties.
Using a hardcoded hashtag is hacky and not "the ATProto way", but... it's also clearly visible to regular users (unlike a sidecar record or an extra field), and we don't yet have much precedent.
I had some ideas about "record traits", I should really join lexicon-related discussions.
(At least, I believe pinksky just uses app.bsky lexicons? for now at least? I remember I saw a thread about that, and that it just relies on the hashtag)
Can't seem to use it. It asks me to login with my Bsky login and password, but then it sends me a code to my email to login. But there's nowhere a field where I can insert this code.
Why aren't you recommending on the login page that users use app passwords to log in? People logging in with the main password for their account is bad security practice.
I think it would be great if the app would let you create an account on a separate server (like bskysocial, maybe pskysocial). This would allow having different profiles in both apps with different content, because IG and TW had different vibes and that's what people like.
A suggestion I have is perhaps allowing us to hide posts from Bluesky? For example, an artist might not want screenshots or memes on their pinksky profile, but we'd have to repost everything on pinksky which also posts on bluesky... So perhaps an option to just hide posts we don't want?
This looks really good.
Question: what kind of posts does the stories bar show at the top of the screen? We can't post stories on Bluesky as far as I know.
So right now its max 4 images in a carousel? Do you plan on making 10 possible? Thats kinda what I don’t like about bluesky and really like on Pixelfed…
Great job 👊🏻
The only thing I miss from having instagram back in 2020 was the meme accounts. Any good ones to follow on here? Sometimes I need a pallet cleanser from all the horrific news.
When scrolling down through a feed and a video post comes up, it shows first with the black translucent layover of the playback controls, which ruins the visual continuity. They should come up in auto play clean of layovers.
Currently, there's limited space for additional buttons, so I've combined them into a single menu. As more features are added, the UI will change. Stay tuned!
Or leaving just that one symbol and feeds by default and long press on the symbol to select lists instead? I mean many of us use only feeds, having to make that two step now to change feed feels clunky. Maybe easiest for now would be just an option in settings to enable/disable the lists?
The Stories section includes both reposts and original posts made on Pinksky within the last 24 hours. Since reposts are more common, it might give the impression that Stories are only reposts. I'll be adding this clarification in the next version. Thanks for the feedback.
Yes but they aren’t ephemeral posts, not sure what’s the point.
Feels more like a mock-up than anything else, really.
In any case, the app is looking gorgeous and very well programmed. Can’t understand why there’s almost no mention of it in the media compared to other similar apps in development!
Another piece of feedback:
4. When exploring profiles from the grid view and selecting a video post, the video won’t auto play. Would greatly benefit from auto play like on feeds.
They’re different apps, I am curious to the differences. I’ve been watching for Flashes but Pinksky kinda already seems to be what Flashes says it will.
Looks good! How does it work, does it simply display existing Bsky posts in an image-friendly UI, or are posts here unique to Pinksky? How do you make money, will this be a paid app?
I’m still confused about how to get started, it asks me to go to the blue sky account to create a Pinksky account but doesn’t link directly to it and I can’t figure out how to create the link or extend my bluesky account into a Pinksky account.
you can post from PS and through PS if you want you can restrict what shows on PS to only what you have posted directly through PS (vs also BS) and you can filter the PS feed to only things posted directly through PS as well or see everything from BS or PS
Is this open source? Can developers contribute to it? :) i was thinking about building something similar, but there’s no point on that if you already did it. I would like to contribute once in a while in case it’s open source
This worked. But isn't this effectively just creating a second password into my account and bypassing MFA? Why create a second password and not just disable MFA entirely? What's the benefit of an "app password"? It's not like it's restricted just for Pinksky or anything. It's just an MFA bypass.
Can you open up pinksky's posts and profiles to be viewed without logging in?
Especially if people are trying to promote their content via pinksky to their instagram and fb audiences conversion would likely be easier if users weren't forced to create an account and/or log in to even see the posts.
Might want to check out @skylight.social for that functionality. It’s also based on the AT protocol like PinkSky but its main focus is a TikTok/Reels like interface specifically for video. It’s in beta on iOS and an Android beta version is coming soon.
I entered the bandwagon. Now, we better off funding you by whatever means necessary in forms of community donations. Your phase 1 servers may not be enough for millions of users logging in in under 48 hours.
Your TOS says you reserve the right to show ads on someone's account unless they purchase an ad-free version. What is your target pricing for different tiers of account?
Pinksky is actually just an interface for the Bluesky network.
Content you upload are on Bluesky servers. Please note that the ATProtocol network is public, so besides having a policy that doesn't allow it, it actually doesn't prevent anyone to have access to your public data
Any plans to go more dependant? using your own lexicon (https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#lexicon) would allow for more control over features in your app, since you're not just piggybacking off of Bluesky's data.. (but you could do both.)
Absolutely thrilled to see an Insta alternaive that means we can reach the same people that we do on our Bluesky account! It reduces admin and means we can spend more time creating content than monitoring multiple platforms. Just waiting for the Android app now.
At all the people complaining about no nsfw/porn, its made so that all ages can use it. Too many of y'all don't tag your stuff properly and minors end up seeing stuff they shouldn't
Not everything is about you, and I say this as a smut writer
Hey, just wondering: how come my media won't show up anymore in the app? It worked for like a minute when I first joined but now it says "No posts yet"
It seems the issue is caused by the "pinksky" link on your profile. We're working on a hotfix and will release it soon. In the meantime, you can remove the "pinksky" link from your profile and the posts will show up again.
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(you can use the web version and add it to home screen while Android version is not ready)
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Would also allow for some bespoke features in the future.
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Would love to be able to sign in to multiple accounts at once, pretty please @pinksky.app 🙏
Please note that in Pinksky settings you can choose to show only posts from Pinksky on your profile if you want.
of course you don't have to do any of it, but hopefully it would give you better ideas as well :D
Sidecar lexicons or extending existing lexicons is less ideal, but maybe we can work out a proper spec for additional attached fields and properties.
I had some ideas about "record traits", I should really join lexicon-related discussions.
Although Pinksky currently gets free advertising from people's posts now with the visible hashtag, which is no bad thing from Pinksky's POV
Honestly who -makes- these decisions?
Question: what kind of posts does the stories bar show at the top of the screen? We can't post stories on Bluesky as far as I know.
Great job 👊🏻
if possible, adding a repost/reblog button on psky so we don't have to open bsky each time would be great! 🥰
When scrolling down through a feed and a video post comes up, it shows first with the black translucent layover of the playback controls, which ruins the visual continuity. They should come up in auto play clean of layovers.
1. Great job guys, love how quickly updates are coming.
2. Sometimes when swiping through stories the app hangs
3. Love that I can disable stories altogether! For now is best imho
4. Needs ability to zoom in/see images larger ASAP!
5. Lists make it a 2 step now to change feed, not great!
1. UI beautifully designed, congratulations. App is very promising at first look.
2. The mock-up stories don’t make any sense until they are real stories (not image posts).
3. Pinch to zoom in photos would be great.
Feels more like a mock-up than anything else, really.
In any case, the app is looking gorgeous and very well programmed. Can’t understand why there’s almost no mention of it in the media compared to other similar apps in development!
4. When exploring profiles from the grid view and selecting a video post, the video won’t auto play. Would greatly benefit from auto play like on feeds.
https://bsky.app/settings/app-passwords
https://bsky.app/profile/pinksky.app/post/3lgtr3fkbl22h
https://bsky.app/settings/app-passwords
It's an independent app, not affiliated with Bluesky. Since the network is open, any application can be built on top of it.
We hope you'll give our app a try!
Especially if people are trying to promote their content via pinksky to their instagram and fb audiences conversion would likely be easier if users weren't forced to create an account and/or log in to even see the posts.
You can already use the web version in your browser and add it to your home screen if you want to try it.
Wouldn't it be easier for someone to create a fake login page (e.g. https://pinkysky.social) and steal people's passwords?
What's the point
Content you upload are on Bluesky servers. Please note that the ATProtocol network is public, so besides having a policy that doesn't allow it, it actually doesn't prevent anyone to have access to your public data
I really like the stories, clever how you've done that :)
Do you also, as a third party, hold any user data?
Am I making sense? Sorry if not, and thank you!
Any timeframe for the Android app release? This week/quarter/year?
Any reason why I can only search for hashtags? It's make it a bit pointless for me since then I have to come back to bluesky to search :/
Not everything is about you, and I say this as a smut writer
Make your own app if you don't like it