Jack Dorsey presents his other “twitter” that limits centralized control

The team of developers working with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has presented a roadmap for their next project, a protocol for social networks. His proposal focuses on counteracting the control that the big technology companies that own Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and others have today.

According to an official publication of Blog from Jack Dorsey’s company, the “Authenticated Transfer Protocol” or AT protocol will serve as the basis for a new online connectivity standard. It will function as a liberating layer from corporate influence or centralized control.

The development team notes that their initiative works independently of the will of a single company. This is because it will allow users of the social networks built on the protocol protect your private data and retain control over the algorithm.

As explained in your post, each person will be able to decide what content they want to receive, where it comes from, and what personal information they want to share.

Based on that control that allows the user is where the AT protocol marks distance from the most popular social networks today. These have been accused of manipulating, spying and even endangering democracy, as exposed by the documentary film Netflix’s “The Social Media Dilemma.”

On Github the developers of the AT protocol describe your project as a federated network, p2p or as a blockchain network, although clarify that it does not fall into any of these categories.

“It could be described as a hybrid federated network with p2p features, but it is more descriptive to focus on the capabilities (identities and self-authenticated data) than on the network topology,” they point out.

Characteristics of the AT protocol for decentralized social networks

The development team complements your project with the social network Bluesky Web, defined as an “ideal browser” to access the Internet through the AT protocol. This is because it works independently of the will of a single company.

Bluesky Web has been developed on an interoperable framework called Lexicon with which will facilitate connectivity between different applications and social networks based on the AT protocol, as detailed by the company in its statement.

In that sense, it will prevent the identity of users from being owned by corporations. Thus, the accounts will be interoperable between social networks facilitating interaction between various applications. It would be like working on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram as if it were a single application.

“Since May, we’ve been doing protocol work on a public repository on GitHub, but have been mostly quiet on our blog and Twitter,” the Bluesky team wrote.

They add that there are still some problems to be solved with the system, but they say that the technology is “stable enough” to be able to reveal what they have been working on for the last three years.

Given this, they opened a waiting list to try the beta version of the Bluesky app. The list was filled quickly, although the date on which the tests will begin was not specified.

In 2019, Dorsey reported in a statement that had learned on Twitter that centralization it was not the way. as it reported CriptoNoticias at that time he said that he had brought together a group of specialists to create the open and decentralized standard that he has now named the AT Protocol.