The Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter competitor Bluesky is in extreme demand; since its February introduction, the app has had more than 100,000 downloads from the Google Play Store.
Since the platform is still closed to the general public, the demand is so great that some users have even started selling their invite codes.
Many Twitter users are searching for a better option because they are dissatisfied with the way Musk is running the service. They have a promising alternative in Bluesky. These are the details you need to know about this new social media platform, which has a lot to offer.
All About Bluesky
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Bluesky is a project to develop a decentralised social media protocol that may support a range of applications and platforms. It was first launched by Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter.
The objective of Bluesky is to increase user control, diversity, and creativity in the online social environment while addressing some of the risks and difficulties associated with centralised platforms, such as censorship, privacy, and content moderation.
Bluesky is a collection of standards and protocols that can be used by a variety of developers and communities rather than a single product or service.
The Similarities
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Screenshots on the Google Play Store depict a social network interface that scrolls vertically and looks remarkably similar to Twitter, with options to like, repost, and comment beneath each post.
Users of Twitter should be extremely familiar with the programme because the symbols on the bottom toolbar also remarkably mirror those on Twitter.
The Dissimilarities
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The handle that a Bluesky user chooses can be their domain. According to Bluesky’s blog, “a newsroom like NPR could set their handle to be @npr.org.”
Then, journalists whose identities NPR wants to confirm could use subdomains to set their handles to be @name.npr.org. Brand accounts could also designate their handle as their domain.
Bluesky uses automated moderation, which is handled differently. The platform is developing a mechanism for neighbourhood labelling.
According to the Bluesky blog, “services or users on the network might subscribe to their labels to flag, filter, silence, or block content. For instance, an organisation like the ACLU could develop a “hate-speech” label.
In contrast to Twitter, Bluesky is based on the AT Protocol, an open-source foundation for creating social apps. By establishing a standard format for user identities, followers, and data on social applications, it “enables app interoperability and free user movement across them.”
This implies that a user potentially has the option to switch between accounts on different apps that support the AT Protocol, which is not allowed on centralised apps like Twitter.
Bluesky is also developing a number of algorithms that users can select from based on their requirements.