Skylight, an open source alternative to TikTok has surged in recent days after the sale of TikTok to a consortium of businesses in the US including Oracle and a Middle East Hedge Fund.
URL: https://skylight.social
Skylight , an open-source, TikTok-style video app built on the AT Protocol, surged past 380,000 users after last week’s shake-up around TikTok’s U.S. ownership and privacy concerns .
From Tech Crunch:
Launched last year and backed by Mark Cuban and other investors, Skylight’s mobile app is built on the AT Protocol, the technology that also powers the decentralized X rival Bluesky, which now has north of 42 million users. Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, commenting, and sharing; and the ability for community curators to create custom feeds for others to follow. The app now has over 150,000 videos uploaded directly to the platform. It can also stream videos from Bluesky because of its AT Protocol integration.
Harmeyer said Saturday that 1.4 million videos were played on the app the day before, up 3x over the past 24 hours. The app had also seen sign-ups increase more than 150%. Other noteworthy stats include over a 50% increase in returning users, over 40% rise in video played on average, and over 100% increase in posts created. This surge was likely triggered by concerns over TikTok’s change in ownership and its unfortunately timed technical glitches . […] Over the weekend, Skylight’s CEO, Tori White, said the app added around 20,000 new users and is continuing to grow. So far this January, the app has seen around 95,000 monthly active users.
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Skylight is not open-source. The app merely builds on top of the AT protocol, which is an open standard.
ah okay - they should change their press release! I just copied what they had on their news release.
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Here is the exact beginning quote of the Tech Crunch article:
Skylight , a TikTok alternative built on open source technology, is benefiting from concerns that arose over TikTok U.S.’s change in ownership last week . The startup, a maker of a short-form, vertical video app similar to TikTok, says it has now topped over 380,000 users and is continuing to grow after a busy weekend.