Jack Dorsey has now introduced a Twitter alternative, putting an end to any rumours that he might return to the company as CEO. Following his increasing friendship with Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk on the social media site, Dorsey, who left his position as CEO of Twitter in November 2021, was rumoured to rejoin the company. Nonetheless, it appears that they would fare better as rivals than as allies. The experimental version of Dorsey’s Bluesky, which has kept the blue hue of Twitter, is now accessible through the Apple App Store.
The new microblogging platform Bluesky is currently in invite-only beta on the App Store. The app is probably getting closer to being live. In October of last year, Bluesky published a blog explaining the protocol behind the app.
A new decentralised social media protocol called Bluesky was created. “Bluesky was established to build a social protocol. We published “ADX,” the protocol’s initial iteration, in the spring. The site stated, “During the summer, we enhanced and simplified ADX’s design, and today we’re offering a sneak peek of what’s to come.
A protocol is basically a set of guidelines or standards that control how hardware and software interact. The protocol in this instance would specify how social networking sites utilising Bluesky would communicate with one another.
The protocol’s initial iteration, “ADX,” was made available by Bluesky in the spring. This original version was probably less polished and more complicated than the team had planned. So they worked to refine and simplify ADX’s design during the summer.
The Bluesky app, which was released on February 17 and is currently in the testing stage, has more than 2000 installs, according to app intelligence company data.ai. Also, in terms of user interface, it is fairly similar to Twitter. Bluesky queries “What’s up,” whereas Twitter queries “What’s happening?”
Users of Bluesky can block, share, and mute accounts just as on Twitter. Users do not currently have the option to add individuals to the list, though. Users do receive recommendations for “who to follow” aside from that. “You may check your Notifications in another tab, including likes, reposts, follows, and replies—just like Twitter. No DMs are present “based on the report.
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