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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Meta is working a way for users to use their Facebook accounts to sign up for Threads, which has been tied to Instagram say day one.