A year ago, Bluesky opened the public and was known as one of many X rivals that appeared after ELON Musk acquired a network known as Twitter. Today’s social networks have grown to more than 33 million users, and AT protocols (or Atproto) are used to develop dozens of applications designed to work together as part of an open social web.
Many developers of these apps attended the first meeting of AT Protocols, atmospheres held in Seattle last weekend. There they learned what other things should be thought of when they were built for this new social app ecosystem. Others attended online and saw conversation and presentations remotely and participated in inconsistent chat for community members.
The ATPROTO community is trying to rebuild the new version of the social web, including social media websites, blogs, wikis, video and photo sharing sites, and other collaboration and hosting services. Except for this time, the app is being built based on public technology and is not built as a centralized service operated by a technology giant.
Bluesky was the first of these services, but it is not the last if you have a powerful power in the Open Social Web Movement.
Below is a list of apps for AT protocol -based consumers built on BLUESKY or default protocols, and users can control social networking experience and personal data again. Many of them are still initial development, but show the potential of the ahead of the expansion ecosystems.
This is ongoing work! The app is still added. Feeling missing? Send your email to sarahp@techcrunch.com. (This list is not a small project or a Dev tool, but a focus on apps for consumers that people can use now.)
Photo and video sharing app
flash
Flashes is an Instagram alternative based on the Bluesky client, the initial app of Berlin Vogelsang, a Berlin developer. Flashes, which was released publicly at the end of February, took 30,000 downloads for the first 24 hours to provide a classic Instagram experience. Thanks to the update released by BlueSky, you can upload up to four photos or up to three minutes of photos or videos for 1 minute. The app offers a portfolio mode where photographs, artists’ selective feeds, custom feeds and photographers can show their works.
flame
Spark is also a video priority app built on the AT protocol as well as Bluesky. This allows the app to differentiate it from a longer video, filter, effect, music library and a wide range of functions that provide life.
Kwangchang society
Created by Victoria (“Tori”), a co -founder based in Seattle and Lead Harmeyer, is built on BLUESKY and offers Likes, Follows, Comment and Profile Pages. The team can follow the development of the app on the co -founder’s tiktok page when adding more features, including video support.
This app is being tested on iOS and Android.
Pink
Pinksky is one of many apps that want to build an instagram alternative using Atproto. This app, produced by the developer Ramon Souza, is provided by iOS and Android and will focus on sharing photography. The app provides a similar feature to the Instagram, including a story section for 24 hours of user profiles, photos and video feeds and posts for 24 hours.
Blues screen (Tiktok alternative)
BlueScreen, produced by Vogelsang, is an upcoming app that focuses on the video posted on the BlueSky Social Network.
Bluesky video
BlueSky’s usually named video is another app created above the Bluesky of “MSZPRO”, an indie Japanese developer, Hoshida Takiyoshi. Like anyone else, you can use the Bluesky video to find a video posted on the Bluesky social network by scrolling vertically with a familiar like, repost and repling button.
Live streaming
Stream plate
Streamplace is the first live streaming video service built on the AT protocol. Used to activate the recently open atmosphere conference in Seattle, the service provides a familiar streaming experience that supports high -quality video, live streaming, clip and uploads. All video content is encrypted by the creator and respects consent preference. Based on the same public key infrastructure as the decentralized social network.
The Streamplace, founded by ELI Mallon, was initially supported by his former employer Livepeer (another distributed video platform) and operated the cryptocurrency that invested in different projects. As a result, he was able to move the stream plate from the ground. Now he is seeing the potential to build a technology that can appeal to producers such as Twitch Treamers. For creators like Twitch Treamers, we will try to connect directly to the fans through their app or website without dividing the profits from Twitch owner Amazon.
Feed builder
abrasion
Graze is a startup that can easily build, customized, publish, and manage Bluesky feed, and eventually generate profits by advertising, sponsor posts and subscriptions. This service is in cooperation with BlueSky Firehose (aka JETSTREAM), which includes all public posts on social networks.
Surfing
SURF, the latest app in Flipboard, allows you to build your own custom feed on the open web, including Bluesky, as well as Mastodon and RSS. In other words, you can mix news articles, blog posts, podcasts and YouTube feeds with customized feeds that have been surfed with social posts. Then you can use Surf to explore feed and others in the community over various topics and interests. SURF is still in personal beta test, but you can use a list of subscriptions.
Sky Feed
You can create a dashboard for feed and profile by using a client like a web -based tweet deck for Bluesky. However, most users come to Skyfeed because even non -developers provide an easy way to build a custom feed based on a list or regular expression.
Communication / Social Discovery
germ
Germ’s big idea is not only to provide alternatives to telephone messages such as signals, but also to build social platforms that can discover and connect other reasons for any reason, such as market exchange, date, social networking. However, it will be a place to control the data you are sharing, and you can stop sharing at any time.
Germ, an end -to -end encryption messenger that can be downloaded from the App Store, can build and share multiple IDs. You can also start chatting with someone in Germ even if you don’t install the app using Apple’s app clip technology. This allows you to provide a light app experience on your iPhone before downloading the entire application from the App Store.
Germ was established by the writer and stanford instructor Tessa Brown (CEO) and all Apple Privacy Engineer Mark Xue (CTO). The team is now working on the integration of Bluesky, where users can chat safely with their Bluesky friends.
wide
Roomy, a peer -to -peer messaging app based on the AT protocol, is similar in some ways but is used as a public standard. For example, atProto is used for social discovery and Automerge is used for peer -to -peer discovery. The app is supported by SkySEED’s funding and is currently being tested.
You can log in to Roomy with your BlueSky account and send a message directly to another user to participate in the chat. The message is encrypted, but this is an experimental project and not thankful. In addition, some metadata that is not encrypted is the person you said, but shows the contents of the message. (In other words, do not replace a wide signal yet.)
Social trend
Dazzling.FM
Dazzle, founded by previous stability AI engineers, John Sabath, provides a website that emphasizes trends in various topics by understanding the data firefighting of Bluesky and consisting of this category. Most of the initial discussions about Bluesky depend on politically, but the site of Dazzle can help to find dialogue with other topics.
Dazzle allows you to provide guidance to adjust your site to your own interests. For example, you can ask to show a topic without a post that features political discussions. In other words, you can show local news to show wise news, but not national politics. Or you can only maintain experience to those who post with positive emotions.
The idea is that you can switch these various modes created using AI technology without actually building a custom feed. Instead, you can input what you want to see (or not see) in an interface such as chat, and then provide a remarkable reconstruction to provide a consistent post with the request you just requested.
line
Link AGGREGATION Service Sill allows you to catch what everyone says in one place on alternative social media sites such as Bluesky and Mastodon. The service is similar to the previous start -up Nuzzel integrated into Twitter app after acquiring on Twitter as part of a Scrolls contract in 2021. Nuzzel helped news addicts to help users who are popular on Twitter to track, read, and reconstruct that day.
SILL is also one of the early adapters using BlueSky’s OAUTH on the AT protocol instead of the App password, so it’s easy to log in. Once connected, the conversation results are displayed with the most shared links in the service.
Front page
Deviling and Union Links, built in ATPROTO, Frontpage, a gorge, provides a simple interface that constructs and improves interesting posts and links shared throughout the social network. It also supports tin and notifications.
Alternative
Skit
In addition, Vogelsang is an alternative to Bluesky’s main app that is optimized for accessibility and works well on iPhone and iPad.
Deck.blue
With another Twitter deck -style web app, you can fill the screen with a heat with home feed, notification, custom feed, and list. The app also supports multiple accounts and posts.
event
Smoke signal
SMOKE SIGNAL, an event and RSVP management system, is an alternative to Bluesky, such as Eventbrite or Facebook event. The Smoke Signal, built above the ATPROTO, supports OAUTH to allow users to discover communities, create events, create rsvp events, and maintain their personal data.
Blogging
White wind
White Wind, a MarkDown blogging service for AT protocol, can be used for Markdown after logging in using the AtProto account. This service includes tools for uploading images and preview of posts using everything stored in your account’s PD (Personal Data Service). Posting to BlueSky is automatically included in the blog.
hermeneutics
Bluesky Hunter
Blueskyhunter provides a way to take advantage of the trend of social networks with the growth and analysis tool set of Bluesky. The Viral Post of the app shows more popular posts in a section called Viral Post. This can help content planners to choose trends and memes or to find a popular template for other users.
Fedica
Fedica offers an online dashboard that can write and make a post in social networks, including Bluesky, Threads, X, Mastodon and Pixelfed. It also supports traditional social apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Pinterest and YouTube. The plan includes a variety of features for social listening, hashtag tracking, keywords and post -up tools and tools for analyzing followers.
