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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 30/03/2026

PinkSea was down for an unplanned maintenance from 6pm to 7pm CEST. sorry for the downtime!

a picture of PinkSea-tan crying with the text "PinkSea down..."

PinkSea @pinksea.art · 14/08/2025

i promised big things and we deliver! courtesy of @verti.blue, we have a completely revamped oekaki editor! the layout was changed to make it fit better with PinkSea and make it more usable! it's so pretty and pink!!! thank you so much to verti!!!! check it out now at pinksea.art!

a screenshot showing the new pinkish theme for tegaki.js, with an image of PinkSea-tan doing the peace sign with the caption "now in pink"

image courtesy of vertigris

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 13/08/2025

small update :) we now have improved discord (and beyond!) embeds, using the activitypub embed functionality discord has (does this mean pinksea is now AP compatible?) we have some big things coming very soon too, so stay tuned!

a screenshot showing the full oekaki preview for discord, with the username, handle, image, provider name and date posted

a screenshot showing the reply preview for discord, with the username, handle, image, the user being replied to, provider name and date posted

a screenshot showing the user preview for discord, with the username, handle, bio and provider name

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 28/07/2025

you can now also edit a drawing before uploading it!

A screenshot showing a button named "return to the editor"

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 28/07/2025

next up, profiles and oekaki can now be linked to via the handle of the user! it makes linking to a page much nicer :)

A screenshot showing the pref.ata.moe account being linked to by "https://pinksea.art/pref.ata.moe"

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 28/07/2025

hi hi! the newest PinkSea update is here!!! there's a lot that's changed, but let's begin with the most important! as has been teased for weeks now, customizable profiles are here! you can now set a nickname, bio and an avatar you've drawn right inside of PinkSea! how cool is that?

A screenshot of the main PinkSea front page, showing the new avatars and nicknames right next to the oekaki cards.

A screenshot of the PinkSea user edit page, showing the ability to edit the nickname, bio, avatars and links.

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 07/07/2025

sneak peek at the next PinkSea update

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 27/06/2025

long time no see, huh? with university out of my way for the next 3 months, i've finished the update that i've been working on a couple of months ago :) we finally have a simple, but much more complete search system! it's going to be extended in the future, but the days of finding tags are gone!

A screenshot of PinkSea, showing the user searching for the keyword "miku"

A screenshot of PinkSea, showing the tag results for the word "miku".

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 21/04/2025

thank you so much to @innerspiral.lol for mentioning us in her latest blogpost!!!! (which is really good btw you should absolutely read it)

One service on top of the service I use the most (Bluesky) is PinkSea. And everyone, PinkSea honestly feels like magic. It’s this little pocket of the internet that actually gets this shit, it’s not about chasing clout or grinding for views, it’s just pure creation for the sake of it. PinkSea is basically this beautiful little online oekaki board built on top of the AT Protocol, and it feels like a time machine in the best damned way. You log in with your Bluesky account (or anything that's on the AT Protocol), and instead of uploading some art you've already made, you have to draw it right there, in the moment, using a built-in simple canvas. Just pure, in-browser drawing like the old internet used to have. But what makes PinkSea special isn’t just the tech, but also it’s energy. It brings back that raw, fleeting feeling of creating something just because you wanted to, and not because you needed likes or attention. Every piece feels a handcrafted, and a little vulnerable, and it is! And that’s what makes it so fucking real. It’s so rare to find a space like that now, where you’re not performing, but you’re just making. PinkSea feels less like a little hub, and more like a tiny, little world where art still belongs to the artist.

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 08/04/2025

thank you so so very much to @chaykak.bsky.social for mentioning us in his latest article!!! it's absolutely insane to see us there www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... it's also incredibly good, you should absolutely read it!! (and thank you to @jay.bsky.team for the kind words <3)

My favorite project besides Bluesky is a tiny site called PinkSea, a version of Japanese oekaki, bulletin boards for sharing digital drawings. I can log on to PinkSea using my Bluesky account information and post what I draw on both platforms simultaneously. In the Bluesky office, I pulled up PinkSea on Graber’s laptop, and she said that she had never seen it before. It is not a digital town square; with perhaps a few hundred active users, it’s barely even a digital dive bar. But its existence suggests the possibility of other creative projects on the protocol to come. Graber scrolled through the feed, which showcased both sophisticated anime figures and crude doodles, and her eyes lit up. “What excites me is new worlds emerging that I can’t imagine,” she said.

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 30/03/2025

on top of that, we've revamped our README a ton! thank you to everyone who participated in the drawing thread <3

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 30/03/2025

love drawing? hate centralization? the PinkSea AppView and its frontend are now easily self-hostable thanks to a bunch of changes we've been working on for the past week or so! it's so easy that i've managed to deploy my own instance of PinkSea within just one minute, check it out

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 26/03/2025

every good AppView needs an anime girl and PinkSea is no exception welcome our cute sharkgirl PinkSea-tan!!! she was designed by @cryztl.bsky.social and is absolutely wonderful and i love her so much!!! ;w; please treat her with utmost love

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 12/03/2025

hi! i've pushed a tiny update to PinkSea, fixing wrong behavior when uploading with an expired refresh token. this will now save your oekaki and ask you to log back in! no more lost artworks :) also we've updated the French translation courtesy of @youlinikki.bsky.social! thank you!!

a screenshot of the PinkSea navbar, showing the new "Restore drawing" button

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 09/02/2025

small pinksea update time! we've finally fixed the bug that causes the "finish" painter button to kick you back to the recent screen ^^; on top of that, we now have 3 new translations! hebrew, dutch and portuguese (brazil)!!! and some fixes to german! thank you to everyone who contributed! 🙇

a screenshot of the main pinksea page showing the dutch translation

a screenshot of the main pinksea page showcasing the portuguese translation

a screenshot of the main pinksea page showcasing the hebrew translation

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 03/02/2025

to select a language that's not yet on the list, after logging in, click on this button right here

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 30/01/2025

thank you for the shoutout <3

Protocol

PinkSea is now running its own CDN. A true decentralised network means that all the components of the network are decentralised. Some components such as Relays haven gotten the most attention in conversations about decentralisation. CDNs are much less discussed, and virtually all content depends on the CDN of Bluesky. PinkSea is an ATProto platform for drawing and sharing images, and the platform now runs their own CDN that is independent of Bluesky. As far as I know this is the first ATProto platform that has their own CDN, marking another small step towards the network becoming more decentralised.

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 18/01/2025

what's that? another PinkSea update? within ONE day?? that's right! due to the amazing work of axiand @ GitHub we now have a search bar for tags on PinkSea! on top of that they've decided to redesign the oekaki upload page a bit to make it easier to understand! so cool!!! thank you!!!!

a screenshot showing the search bar used to search for the tag "hatsunemiku" returning a lot of Miku-related oekaki posts.

a screenshot of the PinkSea painter view showing a small doodle of Hanyuu and the new grouping of features while posting

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 17/01/2025

small PinkSea update! removing your posts is now available on the main instance! massive thanks to @glitchypsi.xyz for the amazing missing post image as well!!!

a screnshot showing a missing post inside of PinkSea

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 21/12/2024

we also support a wide variety of languages, and are absolutely looking for help to translate it even further! translating PinkSea is as easy as copying the en.ts file here and translating it! github.com/shinolabs/Pi...

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 21/12/2024

pinned post time! PinkSea is an oekaki (drawing) BBS built on top of the AT Protocol, the protocol powering Bluesky! log in with your Bluesky account and start drawing instantly! every drawing is stored in your PDS, and also can be crossposted to Bluesky itself! pinksea.art

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PinkSea @pinksea.art · 08/12/2024

PinkSea updates, weeee! this update finally brings the ability to display replies on user profiles! no longer are your replies hidden from the world! on top of that, we finally properly show rich embed cards in apps like discord, or even bluesky!

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