TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/tiktok-alternative-skylight-soars-to-380k-users-after-tiktok-u-s-deal-finalized/
@SarahpSarah Perez 馃挋 Skylight has one very significant flaw which makes me predict it will have a difficult time being able to get those users to stick around.
Namely that it is really just an app that shows Bluesky content in a slightly different way. Bluesky content (even when filtering for just the videos) just isn't really the kind of content a Tik Tok user would expect.
A model where the platform is able to focus on its own body of content would work better. Something like
@loops
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