The new social network developed by Jack Dorsey, BlueSky, is taking its first steps.
The founder and former boss of Twitter is making progress on his new decentralized social network project. Called BlueSky, it arrives on the App Store, although currently it is only available by invitation. Before a next public launch?
The promise of decentralization
What could be the alternative to Twitter? This is a question many have been asking since Elon Musk took over the social network last fall. A question all the more significant that for the moment, no competing service has been able to take over, and Twitter remains, according to journalists, a must on the Internet.
And if, in the end, the solution came from… the founder of Twitter? Jack Dorsey, boss of the blue bird until November 2021, has also been at the head of a decentralized social network project for several years. Named BlueSky and developed from the AT (Authentication Transfer) protocol, it had not been talked about since February 2022. However, a new step seems to have been taken with the arrival of the application on the App Store.
Mastodon, but better?
For the moment, the application is still only available by invitation. It should follow Jack Dorsey’s wish not to depend in its control and management on a single entity, unlike a classic social network like Twitter.
BlueSky would thus be a federative and decentralized platform, like the famous instances of Mastodon, the social network that was talked about so much at the end of last year. The user should also be able to have a say in the algorithm, as recalled Century Digital.
But if BlueSky reminds us of the ideals of Web 3.0, it is nonetheless, in form, dependent on Twitter. The presentation of the accounts is thus the same, with an avatar, a counter of followers and posts, but also the columns of posts and answers available at the entrance to the feed.
Sources: Century Digital, The Verge, Techcrunch
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