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Bluesky now has its own version of TikTok (lifehacker.com)
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Bluesky is setting itself up to be a social media jack of all trades. There's the main experience, of course, which replaces something like X or Threads. But it's not all about the text posts: Soon, you'll be able to use an app like Flashes to transform Bluesky into a kind of Instagram. Before that drops, however, you can use a different app to turn Bluesky into TikTok. It's not quite there yet, but it's a fascinating look into a unique kind of social media client—an app that turns one platform into something else entirely.

Bluescreen is a Bluesky client with one singular purpose: It identifies the videos from your Bluesky feed and delivers them to you in a TikTok-style endless scrolling interface. You don't interact with text-based posts, nor do you see still images. It's as if Bluesky offered a "video only" feed. But, since they don't, Bluescreen exists.

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[–] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bluescreen is a Bluesky client with one singular purpose: It identifies the videos from your Bluesky feed and delivers them to you in a TikTok-style endless scrolling interface. You don't interact with text-based posts, nor do you see still images. It's as if Bluesky offered a "video only" feed. But, since they don't, Bluescreen exists. 

It's a cool idea, and it's also the idea behind Flashes. Instead of isolating the videos in your Bluesky feed, Flashes isolates the images, which lets you turn Bluesky into an Instagram alternative. If you're surprised to hear two different Bluesky clients using the same strategy to achieve two similar outcomes, that's because they're both developed by the same person: Sebastian Vogelsang.

Vogelsan announced Flashes before Bluescreen, but released the video app ahead of the photo app. While we wait for the Instagram of Bluesky to get here, we can try out the TikTok of Bluesky instead.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just had a look. No Android version ? Weird

[–] airportline@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's also Skylight Social which does has apparently have an Android version, but it's in closed beta.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Let's wait and see