Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky Social accepts users in beta

jack dorsey reveals that Bluesky Social, is getting closer. The initiative of the ex-CEO of Twitter already accepts users for the beta version. The goal of Bluesky Social, which was first announced in 2019, is to give social network users more control over their data. It will function as a decentralized platform under the protocol «Authenticated Transfer Protocol».

In May of this year, the platform launched the first iteration of its decentralized social network under the nameand “ADX”, which has evolved into the “Authenticated Transfer Protocol». This will allow users account portability, choice of algorithms, interoperability and performance. This data may also be transferred from one provider to another “without losing any of your data or your social graph”.

Bluesky Social will allow users greater control over what they see and who they reach on social media platforms that use the protocol, instead of being controlled by a single corporation. “There is no company that can decide what is published. Instead, there is a market of companies that decide what to bring to their audiences,” says Bluesky.

While Jack Dorsey has pointed out that Bluesky Social is coming soon, not much else is known about it. But the list of Beta users has exceeded expectations. Add 30,000 users in 48 hours after the announcement on October 18.

Bluesky Social, the new “Twitter” by Jack Dorsey

Dorsey founded Bluesky in 2019, together with a small team, later in December of that same year, it was revealed that he was financing the development of a “decentralized standard for social networks”.

As they point out on their website, the application seeks to build a “social internet”, which allows social networks to be open source and interoperable. In this way, users would have control of their data and could move it from one platform to another without requesting permissions.

The most prominent feature of social in blockchainis the possibility of configure custom algorithms. Algorithms are responsible for deciding what content users see. From the platform they point out that “we must have control over our algorithms if we are going to trust our online spaces. The AT Protocol supports open algorithms so users have more control over their experience.”