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Beyond Bluesky: AT Protocol is an app that builds social experience.

MONews
14 Min Read

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.

Developers behind these apps attended the first meeting of AT protocols. atmosphereIt was 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 reconstruct. Web 2.0Social media website, blog, wiki, 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

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flash This is an Instagram alternative based on the previous apps of the Berlin developer SEBASTIAN VOGELSANG. 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

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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

It was produced by a co -founder based in Seattle Victoria (“Tori”) White and Lead HarmeyerSkylight is built above Bluesky and provides features such as LIKES, FOLLOW, Comment and Profile Pages. Users can follow the app’s active development. Co -founder Tiktok page As the team adds more features, including video support.

The app is being tested iOS and android.

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Pink

Pink One of the many apps that want to build an alternative to Instagram using Atproto. The developer has built it Ramon SuzaThis app is available in both iOS and Android and will focus on sharing photography, like Classic Instagram. 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.

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Blues screen (Tiktok alternative)

Blues screenVogelsang’s production is an app that focuses on the video posted on the BlueSky Social Network.

Bluesky video

Usually named Bluesky video Another app built on the Bluesky of the indie Japanese developer Hoshida Takiyoshi “MSZPRO”. 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

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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.

establishment Eli MaloneStreamplace was initially supported by his former employer LivePeer (another distributed video platform), which 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

abrasion It is a new company that can easily build, customize, publish and manage Bluesky feed. Eventually, we generate profits by advertising, sponsorship posts and subscriptions. This service is in cooperation with Bluesky Firehose. Jet streamThis includes all public posts on social networks.

Surfing

Flipboard app
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FLIPBOARD’s latest app, SurfingYou can build your own custom feed throughout 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. Surfing is still in a personal beta test Subscription It is available.

Sky Feed

Client like a web -based Twitter for Bluesky, Sky Feed You can create a dashboard of feed and profile. 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

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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 founded 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

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Pierce Pierce Messaging App based on AT protocols, wide In some ways, it uses public standards only causes disagreements. For example, atProto is used for social discovery. automobile It is used for peer -to -peer discovery. This app is supported by funding Sky Alpha test 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

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Established by the former stability AI engineer John Sabas,,, dazzle Understand the data fire department of Bluesky and emphasize the trends of various topics to provide a website that consists of a 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

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Link aggregation service line In alternative social media sites such as Bluesky and Mastodon, everyone can catch what everyone says in one place. 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

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Distributed and Union Link Agrigator built in ATPROTO, Front page Provides an interesting post and links shared on social networks and a simple interface to improve and improve. It also supports tin and notifications.

Alternative

Skit

Also vogelsang, Skit It is an alternative to Bluesky’s default app that is optimized for accessibility and works well on iPhone and iPad.

Deck.blue

Another Twitter Style web app, Deck.blue You can fill the screen with a heat featuring home feed, notifications, custom feeds, lists, and more. The app also supports multiple accounts and posts.

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event

Smoke signal

Events and RSVP management systems, Smoke signal Bluesky alternatives to things like Eventbrite or Facebook events. 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.

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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.

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hermeneutics

Bluesky Hunter

BlueSky’s growth and analysis toolset, Bluesky Hunter It also provides a way to use the trend of social networks. 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 BlueSky, Threads, X, Mastodon, and Pixelfed offer an online dashboard that allows you to write and book posts on social networks. 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.

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