Jack Dorsey Beta Testing New Decentralised Social App “Bluesky” to rival Elon Musk’s Twitter

The co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, is beta-testing a brand-new social networking site. A week before Elon Musk took over Twitter, Dorsey had announced that his decentralised social network Bluesky was looking for beta testers.

In February, the business announced that it would implement this plan as a stand-alone entity by forming Bluesky PBLLC, a Public Benefit LLC.

And, in a recent statement, Jack Dorsey stated:

“It requires coordination from many parties once a network is deployed, so we’re going to start in private beta to iron out issues.”

To help develop a comparable decentralized concept for the leading social media network, Twitter first launched Bluesky in 2019. The main objective of Bluesky is to establish a solid and open standard for public discourse. Bluesky isn’t currently controlled by any one company, though.

Additionally, Dorsey left his position as CEO of Twitter in November 2021, and in the months that followed, Musk launched a takeover offer for the social network. Elon Musk took over Twitter on Thursday after a protracted struggle, and he quickly fired Parag Agrawal, its CEO, and two other senior executives.

According to the press release, the new app will make use of the federated social network known as the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol), which is hosted by numerous sites rather than just one. As it does beta tests, Bluesky will also improve the protocol’s specifications and divulge information about how it works.

“The next step is to start testing the protocol. Distributed protocol development is a tricky process,” the business revealed in a news release this week. “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, sharing a link to sign up for the beta test’s waitlist.”

The release further stated, “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. 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.” 

Bluesky plans to be “a rival to any firm trying to own the underlying fundamentals for social media or the data of the people using it,” Dorsey stated last week on Twitter. In addition, Jack Dorsey is also lending his support to the Web5 based Zion v2 Project.