Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, caused a sensation in the social media market at the end of last month, announcing the launch of the beta version of his new decentralized social application (BlueSky) BlueSky, in conjunction with the completion of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion.
BlueSky is being promoted as a competitor or alternative to Twitter, as Dorsey says, "It would be a competitor to any company trying to own the raw basics of social media or the data of the people who use it."
Once Jack Dorsey announced that the new decentralized app (Bluesky) needed two beta testers, the app got 30,000 queued orders of people excited to try it out in just two days.
Wow. 30k signups for our app’s waiting list in the last two days! Thanks for the overwhelming interest, we’ll do our best to get you in soon. 🔜
— bluesky (@bluesky) October 20, 2022
(BlueSky) application works with a decentralized distributed protocol that allows users to control its algorithms and control their data completely, which means that your data will be away from governments as well as companies that use it in targeted ads.
The application also features that it allows the user to transfer account data from one platform to another without losing data, so one account gives him access to all his favorite social media platforms. Furthermore; The owners of these applications will not have control over the data of Bluesky users.
How do you get the new BlueSky app?
- Go to the Bluesky app website (https://bsky.app/).
- Enter your email, then click on Join waitlist. Thus, you will join the list of users waiting to try the beta version of the application before it is made available to the public.
It is worth noting that Decentralized Applications - commonly known as DApps - are open source applications that rely on the blockchain or P2P (peer-to-peer) network. Ordinary communication applications created by an individual or a company that become their property and under their complete control.
Decentralized applications offer a lot of features such as: protection of users' privacy, no censorship from a single authority, and flexibility for development. But of course it has some drawbacks such as: the inability to expand, challenges in developing the user interface, and difficulties in making modifications to the code.
For example: the Twitter application is a central application that works for a large number of users around the world at the same time, but in the background it is an application that is owned by a single central entity only and that it manages according to its will.
Examples of decentralized applications now are: BitTorrent, Tor and Popcorn Time applications, they are multi-user applications on both ends, some users consume content and others produce and add to it, while some perform both functions simultaneously.
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