If you want a more relaxing alternative to Instagram Reels where you won't be bombarded with notifications about the 17 reels your friend shared that day, it's a good choice.

Flashes this year launched an Instagram alternative built on top of the Bluesky social network. Now available on the App Store, the app offers a different way to browse the visual posts on Bluesky.

Computing Internet Social Media Flashes is a brand new Instagram alternative — and it’s basically Bluesky for images News By Tom Pritchard published 16 January 2025 ...

I downloaded a lot of apps in 2023. There are two reasons I am fast to download any new social-media app. First, like many people, I am bored of the platforms I've been on for over a decade and I ...

Instagram alternative Flashes publicly launched its Bluesky-based photo-sharing app on the App Store this week, gaining nearly 30,000 downloads in its first 24 hours.

If you're not into the fediverse, then you may have missed a service known as Pixelfed, an open source and ad-free Instagram alternative. It launched in 2018 and can be used on the web or through ...

Vogelsang says that Flashes is not intended to be a complete rip of Instagram and will not receive many features Instagram has. That makes sense, as the app is just a reskin of the Bluesky app.

Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers open source X alternative Mastodon ...

Glass.photo is an excellent alternative for photographers who want to escape the Instagram grind. But it's getting more expensive in 2024.

Meet Picastro, the Instagram alternative for astrophotographers Launched by an amateur stargazer, Picastro gives night sky images the resolution they deserve—without AI slop or algorithm fatigue.

Luckily for me, 2023 was full of new social-media apps. The headlining apps of the year include Instagram's Twitter-killer Threads, ByteDance's Lemon8, and Lapse, one of the latest buzzy photo ...