Bluesky users can now post longer videos and save the inbox from chaos

Bluesky is clearly having its feature update moment this year. Merely days after it got an Instagram-like experience with the Flashes app, the Bluesky mobile app has now received a couple of big multimedia and messaging upgrades. As part of the v1.99 update, the social media platform now allows users to upload videos that are … Read more

Flashes, an Instagram rival built atop Bluesky, released widely

Bluesky, the upstart social media platform that aims to take on X, finally has its own Instagram rival. Named Flashes, the app was first introduced in January and aims to recapture the core photo-sharing experience of Instagram in its early days. Now, it’s live on the App Store. The brainchild of Sebastian Vogelsang, an independent … Read more

Threads takes a page from BlueSky with sharable custom feeds

In November, Threads introduced the ability to create custom feeds around a specific topic — and today, it announced that users can now share those feeds with friends. The feature is reminiscent of BlueSky’s Starter Packs in that users can search for and explore public feeds to find the content they’re most interested in. If you … Read more