BlueSky, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s social media app, rolls out Apple iOS beta
2023-03-02 00:01:33
The app is currently available as an invite-only beta on the App Store. In other words, only a limited number of testers can use Bluesky right now.
Earlier, speculations were rife about Jack Dorsey after Elon Musk confirmed his decision to appoint his successor for the role of CEO. However, with the launch of the beta version of BlueSky, there has also been speculation about him returning to bed as CEO of Twitter.
An open-source Twitter alternative
Bluesky came into being from the idea of an open-source or decentralized social network Protocols that would themselves involve many different social networks operating on different content moderation rules.
The mission statement on the company’s official website reads, “BlueSky’s mission is to drive development from platform to protocol. The conceptual framework we have adopted to accomplish this objective is the “Self-Certifying Protocol”.
bluesky development timeline
It’s been a long time since work on BlueSky started. It first appeared as a spinout company formed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and initially led by former Twitter chief Parag Agarwal In 2019. By the next year, the company hired its first batch of employees on the project.
While Bluesky’s initial plans included integrating it with Twitter at some point. The organization effectively evolved into a separate organization and a business entity of its own in 2021.
By early 2022, the open-source social media platform revealed certified development experiment Or ADXFirst version of the decentralized social media protocol. Later that year, Bluesky made substantial improvements to the protocol to be ready for a preview release.
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source by [tellusdaily.com]