End-to-end encrypted DMs right from your Bluesky handle. Essentially the ATprotocol version of Signal where you can privately chat with other Bluesky members.

We launched More Friends with more friends! Happy Pride to our gorgeous gorgeous community. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you @bsky.app, @heavybit.com and Generationship! Friends, tag yourselves if you dare. Update Germ DM to find your private network now!

Your private network is waiting for you in Germ. More Friends, live now.

See you TODAY, Bay Area! We have a great DJ, at the best bar in SF, and of course with the raddest community in all of tech 🫵🤗 atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:4y...

100 of you can still join Germ and have your rpg.actor hat waiting for you 🤗 PLUS we'll have a special e-gift at our Pride party tomorrow 🏳️‍🌈

Our Nerd Pride party is tomorrow! Two questions: Will we see you there, and in what colors of the rainbow? 🌈 (And for the record... we have 100 RSVPs on that other place 😉) atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:4y...

Stop staring and SAY something already. 👀😅📲

Mo Mutuals, Mo Chats

More Friends, pulling your atproto mutuals into the app, is in TestFlight now, and last release's notification improvements mean they'll get your message fast. Come beta test with us in 2 hours! discord.gg/qEET6NJV8

How many mutuals... *in Germ* 👀👀👀

So how many mutuals do you have? I’m trying to see something… 👀

It's Discord Tuesdays! Come beta test More Friends with us at 1pm PST.

More friends in Germ, more friends IRL. Join us Thursday for our SF Pride Happy Hour. See you there! 🏳️‍🌈💚🏳️‍⚧️

Stop staring and SAY something already. 👀😅📲

Everyone can see you’re mutuals. No one knows you’re talking on Germ. More Friends, live in beta now.

Y'ALL! Did you see this?? This is SO good!

Happy Juneteenth from the Germ team! Let's keep bending the arc of the universe toward justice. 💫

Your private network is waiting for you in Germ. Privately DM your mutuals, in beta now.

DM More Friends. Our newest feature is live in beta. Find your atproto mutuals in Germ DM now. germnetwork.com/blog/more-friends

The Atmosphere gets busier every day. Where can a girl find a quiet place to talk? ☕️

Help us test our next feature before it hits the App Store! Join Germ’s beta program and be first to try and give feedback on the feature, dropping soon. 🦜🗺️🏴‍☠️ testflight.apple.com/join/4T9vp3Yt

Real life goes down in the DMs. What if we could get there, faster? 🤔🏃‍♀️

Help us test our next feature before it hits the App Store! Join Germ’s beta program and be first to try and give feedback on the feature, dropping soon. 🦜🗺️🏴‍☠️ testflight.apple.com/join/4T9vp3Yt

The next Bay Area ATProto meetup is a party. 🥳 Celebrate Pride with Germ, @bsky.app, @heavybit.com and Generationship—next Thursday June 25 in San Francisco. atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:4y... or use Luma for calendar and email integration: luma.com/y77e4xc9

Another beautiful morning to try Germ DM. Your private world, tucked inside an app. 🪴

I am truly so excited about this bc it’s a bit hard to build an in-Germ QR code that sidesteps your existing follower graph. Now if you meet IRL and want to Germ DM with another atproto user, just show them your Bluesky QR, follow, then DM. 📷 ➡️ 💬

It's your world. We just ship you the software to keep it that way. 🔐

Our newest release is live in the App Store! Make sure your Germ DM is up to date for better notifications, including for first messages from new friends. We're also laying the foundation for what's dropping next. Stay tuned! 📲💚

Feed (Everyone) > Group Chat (50 Friends + Bluesky) > Germ DM (Just You)

Another atproto app is linking to Germ every week. Is yours next? Add the Germ DM button to your users' profiles for seamless private messaging right from their handles.

Idk if your problem was solved but iirc @kandake.africa and @happyview.dev by @trezy.codes both have their own private data implementations. Not a ready to go solution quite yet if you need encrypted messages but @germnetwork.com has some of their work open sourced here also read their blog.

We're cooking our next big feature. What do you think it is? 🤔

It's Discord Tuesday! Find us in our server at 1pm PST. Bring questions, comments, or meet other Germ users and our team.

Congratulations to our co-founder Tessa for her recognition by the San Francisco Business Times. Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

consistently one of the coolest and most thoughtful teams building iOS apps today

It's ok to be curious 😏🫣 Download Germ DM for iOS and get set up in seconds.

Bay Area, join us for Pride! We're celebrating our queer team members, community, and with all our friends. Join us at El Rio in San Francisco on Thursday the 25th to kick off Pride Weekend. 🌈 👯‍♂️

Happy weekend, you crazy germs. Remember, don't do anything I wouldn't do (make a million friends and keep in touch forever without ever sharing your phone number). 🌈😎💕

Me? I lean germ4germ 🧚

Build 4654 is now in TestFlight with notification improvements! 📫 App Store users, coming to you soon.

Waiting for news of our Android app? There's an e-mail list for that. germnetwork.com/android-waitlist

We're complex. That's why Germ supports multiple identities. Drop two (or more!) emojis for your 2 sides. ⬇️♊️🎭️

It's Discord Tuesday! Find us in the place at 1pm pst. Tell us your hopes, your fears, your feature requests... discord.gg/7WMSyhv5

😏🌈 SF, let’s boogie

Ring in Pride Weekend with Germ! Join us on Thursday, June 25 from 5-8pm at iconic SF queer bar El Rio. Don't miss our biggest event yet, with partners @bsky.app, Heavybit, and Generationship. RSVP below! 🏳️‍🌈💚🏳️‍⚧️ atmo.rsvp/p/germnetwor...

Looking good, @tijs.org!

Thank you to @j4ck.xyz for our new pfp 😇 Make your own on Pictosky 🎨

happy pride happy summer happy gemini szn happy sunshine happy yapping happy scanning their QR code to gossip later 🌈♊️🌞

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They wear the cap, they wanna yap. It's the weekend, send the first DM. 💁🏽‍♀️