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.
I don’t understand why Bluescreen and Flashes have to be different apps. Not many people are uploading vertical video to Bsky.
If you open Flashes and set your feed to Video you essentially have the same thing but with an Instagram layout isn’t of a Reels layout. If Bluescreen was built as its own tab inside of Flashes like Reels inside of Instagram, I think it would be a better user experience.