- Bluesky Social, Jack Dorsey’s social media decentralization platform, is now accepting beta users
- This news comes as Elon Musk takes over Twitter, which Dorsey founded in 2009 and ran for many years.
- In 2021, Dorsey quit Twitter and named Parag Aggrawal his successor. Musk was fired this week.
Just as Elon was finishing his Twitter purchaseJack Dorsey, the founder of the company, and former CEO, announced a beta launch for a social media company.
Bluesky Social, Dorsey’s Blockchain-based Social Network, announced Tuesday that it will soon launch and is currently accepting beta testers. Within two days, the initial announcement attracted 30,000 sign ups. . To become a beta user, users can sign up for the app before it becomes publicly accessible.
Bluesky’s website “It’s designed to support “a new foundation of social networking that gives creators independence form platforms, developers freedom to build, users choice in their experience.” According to Gizmodo, one of its Bluesky’s main selling points is that its technology — which it calls “AT Protocol” — will give users control of their algorithms.
Dorsey had In 2019, Twitter funded work to develop “an open and central standard for social media”
Private messages in private text between Musk and Dorsey It was made publicIn the midst of months-long legal battles between Musk and Twitter, Dorsey stated that “A new platform was needed.” It cannot be a company. That’s why I quit.” He said that Twitter should have an open-sourced protocol similar to Signal’s encrypted messaging app Signal. He also stated that Twitter cannot have an advertising model.
Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006 and had several years-long stints as CEO, most recently from 2015 to November of 2021, when he Stepped down. He was Parag Agrawal has been replacedMusk, then the chief technology officer of the company. Musk was appointed the chief technology officer of Twitter on Monday, just weeks after he took control. Agrawal firedNed Segal is the chief financial officer, Vijaya Gadde the legal chief, and Sean Edgett the general counsel.
Musk reportedly They were fired “for cause”Unvested stock awards can be forfeited and severance payments avoided, according to a source familiar with the matter. Information.
