In November 2021, after 15 years at the company, Jack Dorsey resigned as Twitter’s CEO, but the platform’s entrepreneur and co-founder did not completely stray from Twitter. social networks. In fact, it has redoubled its efforts to push decentralized alternatives.

Bluesky is the fruit of Dorsey’s ideas that social networks should be outside the orbit of corporate control. This concept, which may or may not be realized, has taken an important step by making it available to some users.

Bluesky launch is coming

This new unified social network (“hello Matodon”) has already released a downloadable iOS app, and users who are interested in this app have a waiting list. To do this, they just need to enter their email on the Bluesky page.

After entering the social network, in general, everything will be very similar to Twitter. When composing a post, the app uses the traditional “What’s up?” instead of “What’s up?” displays the text. The bluebird proposal that Elon Musk has had since October last year. There is also a “repost” instead of a “retweet”.

Screenshots of Bluesky speak for themselves. Now all these similarities are the ideal and heart of the social network, the social network. authenticated transport protocolAlthough Dorsey was born within Twitter at the time, he later followed a completely independent path.

As described on the Bluesky website, the protocol is based on four pillars. portability that allows the user’s identity to be moved to another provider; algorithmic selection promising “open algorithms”; Collaboration with a schema-based framework called a dictionary and performance interoperability, so this section is not optional.

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