Before Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey handed over the company to new management and then to a new owner, he supported the development of the new AT communication protocol, behind which the company Bluesky stood. It was supposed to be decentralized, similar to ActivityPub, on which Mastodon runs.
The goal was to create a kind of common ground for the social platforms of the future, and Twitter was supposed to switch to AT one day as well. And thanks to this, it could connect to other networks that would also use Bluesky technology.
The “blue sky” was not heard of for a long time. The Twitter earthquake has drowned out everything else, and it’s hard to imagine that Musk, who prefers to lock down the network, will switch to an open communication protocol. But Bluesky, supported by Twitter’s finances, continues to run, apparently has no obligations to Musk and is slowly preparing to launch the service.
In the App Store for iOS the first application built on AT can already be downloaded. It’s called Bluesky Social, but so far it’s only available by invitation. From the screenshots, however, you can see where the creators got their inspiration. In short, she copied Twitter.
TechCrunch already tried it too and apparently it behaves like Twitter too. There are not (re)tweets, but re(posts). The limit for the number of characters in the post is not 280, but 256. In short, only minor details differ. But Bluesky Social has much fewer features, since the purpose of the private beta is to test if the network works at all.
