Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky app opens its waiting list to massive demand

Bluesky, a decentralized social networking project funded by Twitter, has announced the beta version of its upcoming app.

Bluesky social app announced

The project team has announced that it will launch a social media app called Bluesky Social, which will be offered to end users.

Bluesky’s waiting list quickly saw excessive demand, with the project writing that it had “reached a temporary limit for mailing list subscriptions“. Although Bluesky has switched email providers and is still accepting new waitlist applications, the incident suggests that there is significant demand for the application.

The team also announced the next version of the platform’s underlying protocol, formerly known as ADX.

The team said today that it has renamed ADX “Authenticated Transport Protocol” or “AT Protocol“. It aims to provide portable accounts, a choice of content algorithms, interoperability with other services, and high performance.

The team also described the AT protocol as a federated network, meaning that users can choose from different providers or host their own network themselves.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who first announced the project in 2019, acknowledged the project’s latest step today. He simply called the news “founder” in a statement. tweet.

Despite previous expectations, today’s announcement did not announce crypto-currency or blockchain.

Bluesky’s announcement first considered blockchain social networks such as Steemit and Peepeth alongside non-blockchain protocols such as ActivityPub and XMPP. In 2021, former Zcash developer Jay Graber was hired to lead the project. That same year, Dorsey responded positively to the suggestion that Lightning Network be integrated with Bluesky.

Although blockchain appears to be absent from the final product, Bluesky will likely appeal to the crypto community because of the shared values of decentralization and user control.