Jack Dorsey has taken a step further in the development of his new social media app, ‘Bluesky, ‘ giving hope to those who would not use Twitter anymore.
Since Elon Musk completely secured the Twitter deal, he fired its CEO Parag Agrawal and two other top executives.
Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO Dorsey, 45, announced that his decentralized social app Bluesky was seeking beta testers.
In a press release on Tuesday, the company said:
“The next step is to start testing the protocol. Distributed protocol development is a tricky process. It requires coordination from many parties once a network is deployed, so we’re going to start in private beta to iron out issues.”
“As we beta test, we’ll continue to iterate on the protocol specs and share details about how it works. When it’s ready, we’ll move to the open beta.”
“The word ‘Bluesky’ evokes a wide-open space of possibility. It was the original name for this project before it took shape, and continues to be the name of our company.”
The release explained that the new app will use an Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol), which is a federated social network run by multiple sites instead of a single site.
“We’re calling the application we’re building Bluesky because it will be a portal to the world of possibility on top of the AT Protocol.”
On Twitter, Jack Dorsey wrote about the new company stating:
“It’s a competitor to any company trying to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people using it.”
Although Musk reached a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion in late April, he soon announced plans to back out of the agreement in July, sparking a lawsuit from Twitter and a legal back-and-forth before moving forward with the deal again.
