Jack Dorsey, co-founder of online microblogging service Twitter, is making progress with Bluesky, a decentralized alternative to Twitter, as its mobile app is now undergoing private beta testing.
blue sky has hit App Store as an invite-only app, allowing certain people to try out the new social experience by creating an account via an invite code.
According to a TechCrunch report, the Bluesky iOS app debuted on February 17 and has racked up around 2,000 installs as of February 28. The app is reportedly not yet available for Android testers on Google Play.
As can be seen in Bluesky's app store preview, the rival app looks a lot like Twitter, with an interface that has many Twitter-like features, including the way handles, followers, and followers are rendered. , posts and responses. The Bluesky app feed also reflects likes, comments, and reposts in a similar way to Twitter.
According to TechCrunch, the app allows users to create a post of up to 265 characters, or just a few short of Twitter's 280 characters. Instead of "What's going on?" from Twitter, Bluesky asks "What's up?" Bluesky users can share, mute and block accounts, while more advanced tools like adding them to lists are not yet available.
Despite looking so much like Twitter, Bluesky apparently has some technical features designed to make it very different from Elon Musk's social media giant. The platform aims to provide a decentralized social network protocol, which is expected to make its users' data free from the influence of any government or corporation.
Bluesky is based on the AT protocol, a new federated social network that integrates insights from the latest decentralized technologies. Originally known as Authenticated Transfer Protocol, or ADX, the AT protocol is Bluesky's main effort that aims to enable a new way for servers to communicate with each other, allowing individuals and businesses to host and have multiple sites. web instead of one.
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As previously reported, Bluesky released its first batch of code in early May 2022, a few weeks before Dorsey left Twitter's board of directors. In October, officially presented the Bluesky social application and the AT protocol, which came nearly three years after Dorsey launched the project with the support of Twitter in 2019.
The news comes in between Dorsey, reportedly. moving some bitcoin (BTC) using their other social protocol known as Nostr. Damus, the first mobile application to take advantage of the protocol, was published in the app store in February 2023.
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