Bluesky, the open source alternative to X-Twitter, gained over 850 thousand new subscribers in a single day.
An increase due to the public launch of the social network, which since last spring has only accepted registrations via a waiting list.
Requirement that was eliminated on February 7, to open registration to everyone.
To date, the platform has more than 4 million users, mostly disappointed by X and the management of its owner, Elon Musk.
"Things are changing" wrote the CEO of Bluesky, Jay Graber, in a post on X. The rise, as the Engadget website suggests, is a symptom of people's desire to try experiences similar to those of X, albeit in a simpler way , traditional, without sponsored or misleading content.
It is no coincidence that Bluesky can count on the presence of a team dedicated to checking the veracity of posts that fall within events of general interest, such as the US presidential elections in November.
Bluesky's financier is also Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter, maintaining its helm until its exit in 2021.
Right within Twitter, Dorsey had begun to develop Bluesky, a version of the microblog hosted on decentralized servers, i.e. not in the hands of a single company, and content moderated by users, like on a traditional web forum.
The social network is available on Android, iOS and in the web version.
In the X post, Graber said that Bluesky will now push the accelerator after growing slowly but steadily over almost 12 months.
"There is still a lot of work to do, but we have the goal in mind: the adoption of an open protocol for social media so as to build something better, at the service of the user".
The spike in subscribers has led the app to have some access problems.
A critical issue which, according to the company, was resolved within a few hours.
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