There are a handful of forks of the Bluesky Social app, which is written in React Native for web, iOS, and Android.
These may or may not re-use the Bluesky AppView for content, or be configurable to use different ones.
These are “Bluesky Clients” in the sense that they are typically deployed as web front ends.
Deer Social
- https://deer.social/
- GitHub - a-viv-a/deer-social: fork of social app with toggles for niche features
The GitHub readme goes into detail on features and approach
As a rule of thumb, the best features for deer.social are ones that have a disproportionately positive impact on the user experience compared to the matinance overhead. Unlike some open source projects, since deer.social is a soft fork, any features (patches) we add on top of upstream social-app need to be maintained.
Without an overriding motivation, opinionated features should exist behind a toggle that is not enabled by default. This allows deer.social to cater to as many users as possible.
Chaos Social
- https://chaos-social.github.io
- GitHub - chaos-social/chaos-social.github.io: fork of the bluesky app with extra fun goodies
A fork of Deer Social hosted on GitHub Pages with the following additions:
- bookmark posts using @bookmarks.bluecanary.dev
- post seen tracking + hide already seen posts
- ‘view on fediverse’ button for posts bridged via Bridgy Fed
- define and use a custom appview
BlackSky
- GitHub - blacksky-algorithms/blacksky.community: Fork of Bluesky customized for community use
- https://blacksky.community
- GitHub - blacksky-algorithms/rsky: An AT Protocol implementation prioritizing community safety and self-governance, written in Rust.
Fork of Bluesky customized for community use. Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
Features — Today
Blacksky ships everything you expect from the upstream Bluesky client plus community-specific defaults:
- @blacksky.app moderation service is the default and cannot be disabled, providing strong anti-harament filtering out-of-the-box
- Blacksky: Trending feed replaces Discover as the landing feed
- New users sign up on the Blacksky PDS and receive
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