Bluesky, Jack Dorsey’s alternative to Twitter, is now available in beta: so you can join the waiting list

In November 2021, after 15 years with the company, Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter, but the entrepreneur and co-founder of the platform did not completely move away from the social networks. In fact, he redoubled his 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, with possibilities of becoming a reality or not, has just taken an important step by becoming available to some users.

Bluesky launch is coming

This new federated social network (‘hello Matodon’) just released an app on iOS that can already be downloaded and allows users interested in immersing themselves in it to subscribe to a waiting list. To do so, all you have to do is enter your email. on Bluesky’s page.

Once inside the social network, in general terms, everything will be very similar to Twitter. When creating a post, the app displays the text “What’s up?”, instead of the traditional “What’s up?” of the blue bird proposal, owned by Elon Musk since October of last year. There are also “reposts” instead of “retweets”.

Bluesky’s screenshots speak for themselves. Now, all these similarities can be better understood if we remember that the ideal and the heart of the social network, the authenticated transfer protocolwas born within Twitter in Dorsey’s time, although it later followed a completely independent path.

The protocol, as explained on the Bluesky website, is based on four pillars. Portability, which allows the user’s identity to be moved to any other provider; algorithmic choice, which promises “open algorithms”; interoperation, which includes a schema-based framework called the Lexicon, and performance, so that section is not optional.

Images: Bluesky