Tapbots is working on a Bluesky client, called Phoenix. On making it a separate app, they say:

While there may be some conveniences of an app that supports multiple social media protocols, we believe the experience will be much better overall if we keep them separate. We do plan to provide a way to cross-post between them so you don’t have to write duplicate posts.

This is fine, but I think eventually more people will just post to their own blogs and not have to manage separate apps or accounts.

@manton.org Yes… waiting for this!

@manton Yes… waiting for this!

@manton Yes… waiting for this!

@manton I'm in two minds. I'm very excited about ActvityPub and its potential. But there's a lot of value for me in Bluesky now, not all of which I want to pull into micro.blog. So having a nice new client for reading and replying, even if the majority of my posting goes through micro.blog feels like a win.

@adders Cool. It doesn't hurt to have more apps, for sure.

@manton Oh, hell yeah. I'm far happier with bespoke apps for each service.

@manton I wonder if they are going to have a bundle?

@manton I don’t really understand this on Bluesky. The existing app is pretty amazing and I think it will be hard to improve upon, particularly on offer as a paid service.

Bluesky has “won” and it’s largely due to the ease of which one can set up an account and personalized feeds. What is there to improve? Colors? Accessibility?

However, I do like the third party apps that offer something new, like visual content viewers that allow you to consume in an entirely different way, such as with Flashes or Bluescreen.