Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is already working on a new social network that, by all indications, will be named Bluesky. “The word ‘Bluesky’ evokes a wide space of possibilities,” the company posted last week, and announced on its website that it is looking for people to help it during beta testing.
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Dorsey will be looking to appeal to the thousands of people who have said they will leave Twitter and who disagree with its acquisition by South African-born billionaire Elon Musk.
The new social network is in the testing stage
“The next step is to start testing the protocol. Developing a distributed protocol is a complicated process,” Bluesky shared via press release. “It requires coordination of many parties once a network is deployed, so we’re going to start in private beta to iron out the kinks.”
“As we beta test, we will continue to refine the protocol specifications and share details about how it works. When it’s ready, we’ll move into open beta,” Dorsey, 45, added.
It’s clear there’s a lot of interest in a new approach to social media. We’ll be rolling out invites to the private beta in stages, making sure the protocol scales and taking user feedback as we go.
— bluesky (@bluesky) October 20, 2022
The new service will be decentralized
According to Bluesky, the new app will have extreme security protocols, plus it will use an Authenticated Transfer Protocol, explaining that it will be a social network that will be managed by various sites, rather than using a single location to have its servers.
“We call the app we’re building Bluesky because it will be a portal to the world of possibilities over the AT Protocol.” Dorsey shared that Bluesky wants to be “a competitor to any company that tries to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people who use it.”
Bluesky was founded by Twitter in 2019. “The larger, long-term goal is to build an enduring, open protocol for public conversation,” Dorsey wrote.
“That it not be owned by any one organization, but contributed to by as many as possible,” he added. “And that it is born and evolves on the internet with the same principles.”
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