You’re not yet on Bluesky and still waiting for an invitation? Patience, this should happen soon, especially since the social network has just reached an important milestone.
The priority for developers today is to prepare the network for many, many more users.
Bluesky is slowly finding its audience
Hardly a day goes by without X.com (formerly Twitter) being in the news for the wrong reason. Threads is still not available in Europe. Mastodon is not necessarily easy to understand. Where to go, then, for your microblogging desires? On Bluesky! Finally, provided you have an invitation for the social network, which has just passed the million user mark despite this system.
Launched by Jack Dorsey shortly before his replacement as head of Twitter by Elon Musk, this decentralized social network is still far from finished. Available on Android, iOS, and the web, the service is still missing some features, and the network infrastructure isn’t yet strong enough to fully open the floodgates. The moderation and curation systems also require work to accommodate millions of additional people.
Still a long way to go for Bluesky
The development team says a million invitations have been sent to people on the waitlist, and current users regularly have codes to send themselves. Between two and three million invitations also remain to be sent by Bluesky. The exit of the social network from its closed beta status may therefore not happen immediately.
Since its launch at the end of 2022, Bluesky has notably acquired personalized domain names, personalized feeds and a first paid service (purchase and management of domains). The application, which is regularly inspired by what Mastodon offers, has also been open source since last May. The impossibility for the moment of sending videos in messages, for example, however, reveals the modest state in which the service still finds itself.
Source : Blue Sky
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