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.

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.

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.

Thankfully, despite the fickle nature of most app users, Bluesky seems to have managed to break through and become a really promising alternative. And thanks to the fundamental nature of its open protocol,