i’m way too excited about a bluesky-based instagram replacement. i just really want musk / zuckerberg / all evil rich billionaires that control all online spaces to lose everything - ThreadSky

junlper.beer • 10 days ago

i’m way too excited about a bluesky-based instagram replacement. i just really want musk / zuckerberg / all evil rich billionaires that control all online spaces to lose everything

Reposted from Flashes App 🌩️

Here's a preview of it in action.

Please ignore the media from the disabled media tab being rendered in the last test - I'll fix that

Comments

joe1134206.bsky.social•10 days ago

Mother of god. And please pass the higher quality photos over to this app. And true 4:3 portrait photos. And an iPad app. Wow, now that I write them, it's obvious absolutely none of this should be groundbreaking... Yet, they've failed to do any of it.

renezuo.bsky.social•10 days ago

I hope Zuck loses all his properties in Hawaii.

anqareliouth.bsky.social•10 days ago

He will just buy property in ancient Egypt

renezuo.bsky.social•10 days ago

So long as its for his fuckin tomb I might be alright with that lol

luesiashroom.bsky.social•10 days ago

Fascinating, the future looks bright.

markus-erdt-art.de•10 days ago

Only way to make this better would be if they move to Europe and out of their reach.

koalasky.bsky.social•10 days ago

who owns bluesky?

mishimimaru.bsky.social•9 days ago

I personally want to see them hanged too, if possible

friendlykitties.bsky.social•10 days ago

please just give us groupchats. my family is dying.

jessnewman.bsky.social•10 days ago

Came here to say this

akadoozee.bsky.social•10 days ago

I've been enjoying pixelfed as an Instagram replacement for my cat

airportline.bsky.social•10 days ago

Can’t wait to become a flasher

girlbeans.bsky.social•9 days ago

imagine your future self coming to you years ago and saying "in 2026, you will be famous for your legendary skeeting and flashing"

grassdragon193.bsky.social•10 days ago

We *almost* had something like that with Hive, trying to do both instagram for images and twitter for small posts. Amazing how something can live and die in a day.

Hopefully it works out much better this time.

anqareliouth.bsky.social•10 days ago

I don't like Instagram I just really fucking love breaking up monopolies

croifox.bsky.social•10 days ago

Am I stupid or does BlueSky not also belong to an evil rich person who is just less notorious for now

larslien.bsky.social•10 days ago

It accepted investment recently from Blockchain Capital which is led and owned by people associated with Russian operatices, Chinese prison labor, Steve Bannon, a multi-billion crypto scam (EOS), etc.

Search X for details.

incrouable.bsky.social•10 days ago

Mastodon does that and is open source

apepelis.bsky.social•10 days ago

I'm very much interested, but I don't use an iphone regularly. I'll wait for the android version

yapper.online•9 days ago

I just hope it sees wide adoption getting everyone in your social circles to download this new app might be a bit challenging

1026pm.bsky.social•9 days ago

i’m here for even a sliver of decentralised social media.

poyoboyo.bsky.social•10 days ago

me too because they have a virtual monopoly and literally deserve to lose everything!

bigdaddydom.bsky.social•10 days ago

I feel like we'll get a new breed of brainrot

elfstrogen.bsky.social•9 days ago

Unless bsky changes its base of operations to someplace like Ireland if it does come under crackdown it will be easily controlled and threatened.

snakehead.bsky.social•10 days ago

After that, all that left is Dorsey

rawfrustrations.bsky.social•10 days ago

Pinksky already looks pretty much exactly like Instagram

xdresstera.bsky.social•10 days ago

is there a highly controversial IG figure that may come over to it and cause a significant portion of the user base to freak out and declare the platform dead when they're not immediately banned so i can plan around not bejng logged on for that

boobburger.bsky.social•10 days ago

Omg im so ready. Im excited too. I already deleted my ig

sameyaro.bsky.social•10 days ago

Check out https://pixelfed.social bestie

jstn.bsky.social•10 days ago

Post implies it's available - how do I get it?

peepaww.bsky.social•10 days ago

America should get its independent social media, we should stop using platforms of those silicone valley lunatics

lunarliv.bsky.social•10 days ago

Genuinely a hope and also I guess it's one of the silver linings (if you could even say there are any) of this era, more people talking about how they REALLY don't like billionaires and tech brose.

sqwert.bsky.social•10 days ago

i don’t trust any centralized social media platform to stay good, even Bluesky… but we will also never truly retvrn to the old phpBB and vbulletin days, the people have become too soft and complacent and addicted to random likes from strangers, so I guess I’ll take what I can get

dashwallkick.bsky.social•10 days ago

you know how piracy became the norm because people were sick of cable, then streaming services came in and fixed that by being convenient and cheap, and now every streaming service sucks, so people went back to piracy? This kinda feels like that.

hikiru.bsky.social•10 days ago

Actually the sad reality is people are too used to streaming services, too technically illiterate to pirate, or both. Most people just whine about the cancelled shows, price increases, etc but keep paying because they think it’s their only real option to watch their shows.

phoenixofmetal.bsky.social•8 days ago

I know I’m too inexperienced to hit the high seas so I’m just buying physical media when I can and pivoting to other forms of entertainment.

hikiru.bsky.social•8 days ago

https://rentry.co/megathread

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hikiru.bsky.social•8 days ago

If you have/can get a spare computer and are willing to put in some work and do some research you can set up a plex server with a ton of pirated shows to make your own personal Netflix

hnimntwo.bsky.social•9 days ago

Sucks to be a normie like that

howdoipunch.bsky.social•10 days ago

*laughs in his plex account*

silverpoet.bsky.social•10 days ago

I was checking out Pinksky and I really like how that works and integrates here w Bluesky. But I’ll def be checking out Flashes too. I’m just excited to share my photography again and have people see it and be able to interact with other photographers!

ijagozan.bsky.social•10 days ago

Looking forward to some chud buying Tiktok for $100 billion only for all of the users to immediately abandon it for some app out of Belgium or Vietnam or something

tails608.bsky.social•10 days ago

yea but I'd rather not become dependent on a single company that could very well enshittify itself at any point, even if they're the best mainstream alternative currently. Fighting obligarchy with obligarchy

poolsapp.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yeah, people should have their own network with interoperable apps. Let them own their data and social graph. The power of the network effect should be held by the people, not the latest popular meeting place

ratmanjack.bsky.social•9 days ago

I live to see them suffer

nicolelan.bsky.social•10 days ago

Thank god. IG is fucking unusable since Zuck took it over. The UX changes every time I open the stupid app. They also haven’t fixed their photo dimension ratios even though they now allow reels 🤷🏽‍♀️ 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

figuralism.bsky.social•10 days ago

hate to be the one throwing a wet blanket on it but you do realize that, if these two indeed go big, musk and zuck are just more likely to buy and digest them, right?