Andy Hutchinson.
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Flashes for iOS

The First Real Instagram Alternative for Photographers?


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luesky has picked up a fair amount of traction with 32million user accounts on the alt-social media platform in its first year. It’s dwarfed by Instagram and Twitter of course, let’s not kid ourselves, but the signs are that this platform – above all of the other alternatives to the billionaire-owned services – stands the best chance of reaching critical mass.

The problem is that Bluesky is a micro-blogging platform – a direct alternative to Twitter, not Instagram – and you therefore get a lot of non-photography related posts in your Bluesky feed.

That all changes from today, with the launch of Flashes – the first Bluesky app built specifically to provide an alternative to Instagram.

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