After almost a year in beta version, Bluesky opens to everyone.
The app, which is openly inspired by
A move that should rapidly increase the number of users, currently around 3 million.
The birth of Bluesky is also due to Jack Dorsey, financier of the platform and former co-founder of Twitter.
The manager had started developing a version of the app when he was still in the social network then acquired by Elon Musk.
Bluesky is a microblogging platform that uses AT Protocol, a decentralized protocol, available for Android, iOS and web.
What changes, compared to consolidated social networks, is the absence of a central control body and the possibility for each member to create discussion rooms as well as algorithms to personalize the flow of posts on the bulletin board.
The default one provides a chronological order of contents, in the absence of advertising or sponsored posts.
A strong point is the team of full-time moderators who verify compliance with the rules, a black point in Musk's platform.
The service is significantly smaller than most of its counterparts and doesn't yet have a direct messaging feature.
But it has become a gathering place for those disillusioned with Twitter, even high-profile ones.
Furthermore, the opening of registrations could give a further blow to Threads, another social network inspired by the microblog and owned by Meta.
After a boom in access at the launch in the US and, last winter, also in Europe, the number of average users stood at 10 million, down by almost 80% since the launch in July, according to Similarweb statistics.
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