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Our goal is to combine both approaches—to run a moderation service that tries to provide a baseline and to also have an open ecosystem where anyone who wants to innovate can come in and start building. I think this is particularly useful around cases where information is really fast moving and there's specialized knowledge. There are organizations out there already in the business of fact-checking, or figuring out if a verified account is actually a politician or not. They can start annotating and putting that information…

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Maria Diaz/ZDNETBluesky's decision to open its social network to the public triggered a flood of new people eager to join. Based on stats released by a Bluesky account as spotted by TechCrunch, the number of new users skyrocketed to 856,000 on Feb. 7, the day after the platform removed its invite-only sign-up process. That number was a healthy increase from the 200,000 new users recorded the prior day and the 62,000 to 64,000 users seen each previous day.The surge bumped up the total number of Bluesky users to more…

Bluesky has officially announced ditching its invite-only system. The platform has been operating in private beta since its inception to manage growth, but it’s now open for everyone to sign up. Bluesky is a decentralized social media platform founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2021. The platform, which was a Twitter internal project at first, gained significant traction following Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (later rebranded to X) and the drastic changes he made to the company. Bluesky is now a venue for…

Jack Dorsey's Bluesky Social opened its doors to the public after a year of being in the invite-only phase, and it is safe to say that it is piquing users' curiosity. Since Elon Musk's takeover of X (formerly Twitter), decentralized platforms have grown in popularity, courtesy of those who have been disappointed by the myriad of changes rolled out on X. Although it was in an invite-only beta stage, Bluesky Social enjoyed a massive bump in popularity as it crossed 2 million users in November 2023. Now that it is…

Social media app Bluesky has picked nearly a million new users just a day after exiting its invitation-only beta and opening to everyone. In a post on its main rival — X (formerly Twitter) — Bluesky shared a chart showing a sudden boost in usage on the app, which can now be downloaded for free for the iPhone and also Android devices. Bluesky added that since broadening the availability of the service yesterday by coming out of beta, the app has seen more than 850,000 new signups, expanding its community to more than…

Bluesky, the open source Twitter alternative, has seen in new users just one day after opening its platform up to the public. The service has gained more than 850,000 users bringing its total sign-ups to just over 4 million.The service had been in an beta for about a year and had grown to just over 3 million users when it officially opened to the public. It currently has close to 4.1 million sign-ups, according to an . “Things are rolling over here,” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber in a post on X.The surge in new users suggests…

screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET The next screen asks you to verify your account through a text. Confirm your country and then enter your mobile phone number. Click the button to request a code. screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET At the next screen, create and type a user handle. Your full handle on Bluesky will then be the name you type followed by .bsky.social, as in @johnsmith.bsky.social. Click Next. screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Next, Bluesky displays a series of accounts you might…

Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is now open to anyone. After being in beta for a little less than a year and with just over three million users, the social media platform is an option if the ruins of X (formerly Twitter) or Threads aren’t doing it for you.Bluesky began life as an internal project at Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, but it ended its association with the entity now known as X after Elon Musk’s takeover. “We really believe that the future of social is, and should be, open and decentralized,” Bluesky CEO…

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey-backed social media alternative…