Bluesky, Jack Dorsey’s new app, has evolved in 7 ways.
Jack Dorsey, the founder and former CEO of Twitter, has launched a new social media app called Bluesky.
Bluesky is an open standard designed to decentralize social network protocol, allowing multiple social networks, each with its own curation and moderation systems, to interact with one another.
It should be noted that each social network that uses the protocol is an “application,” and the Bluesky social media platform is currently accepting beta testers.
Dorsey stated at the time of its launch that Bluesky will provide “a new foundation for social networking that gives creators independence from platforms, developers freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.”
As many social media enthusiasts continue to wonder what Bluesky is all about in the aftermath of Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, here are some basic facts about Bluesky’s evolution that you should be aware of.
1. Dorsey first announced the Bluesky initiative on Twitter in 2019. In early 2020, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, Parag Agrawal, invited the first members of the working group.
2. Bluesky was in the research stage in early 2021, with 40-50 people from the decentralized technology community evaluating options and gathering protocol proposals.
3. Bluesky announced its first three employees in March 2022. Aaron Goldman, a former Google and Twitter employee, was hired as a security engineer. Protocol engineers Paul Frazee and Daniel Holmgren were hired.
4. On April 15, 2022, Jack Dorsey acknowledged that the project’s initial progress from the first developers was slow.
5. On April 26, 2022, Bluesky issued a statement stating that the project will continue to operate independently of Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter, and that Bluesky has been operating independently as a public benefit limited liability company since February 2022.
This allows Bluesky to devote its resources to its mission without being obligated to return money to shareholders.
6. Bluesky released the code for an experimental personal data server and command-line client, as well as a high-level overview of the network architecture, in May 2022. They also revealed that they will begin sharing the platform’s development process before it is finished.
7. Bluesky announced a roadmap and additional technical details about the AT Protocol, which will power applications, in October 2022. Bluesky has also begun accepting signups to test a future version of the application.
