Bluesky, a decentralized social network backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is growing in popularity despite its status as an invite-only closed beta. The Twitter-like alternative has amassed more than 375,000 downloads on the Apple App Store since February. Invite codes for the service are now on sale for $200 or more on eBay. - The app rolled out to iOS users in late February and launched on Android on April 20. Since March, Bluesky has seen a significant uptick in visits from less than 300,000 to almost 1.5 million in April.
- Bluesky has similar features to Twitter, allowing users to post text and photos and share and reply to posts.
- Unlike Twitter, the platform plans to be a decentralized system with an "open protocol," allowing for more open sharing between social media platforms.
- Its in-house open-source framework, called AT Protocol, will allow those outside of Bluesky to see how it was built and how it's being developed.
- Twitter initially funded the platform as a parallel independent project before Elon Musk took over last year. Dorsey, Twitter's former CEO, currently sits on Bluesky’s board.
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