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Bluesky, a Twitter-like social network championed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has emerged from its cocoon and is now allowing anyone to create an account and join the service. Until Tuesday, anyone hoping to join Bluesky needed an invitation, which typically meant hunting down an existing member and begging for an invite. That invite-only period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other features, Bluesky said. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM…

Bluesky, the decentralized social network that was hatched by former Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, is expanding its app to all interested users, abandoning an invite-only system that the service used to help regulate growth for the past year.The social network opened to the public last February, and now claims 3 million users, but Bluesky only allowed new users via an invite code to ensure the technology supporting the network could handle the traffic.  Another key aspect of Bluesky, known as “federation,”…

Maria Diaz/ZDNETBefore Threads, there was Bluesky. As Twitter, now X, began losing users, Bluesky invitations became a sought-after commodity. The decentralized social media network initially rolled out in a testing phase, gradually granting access to more users to finetune the protocol user experience. Now, Bluesky is ready for widespread use and open to the public. Bluesky was announced in late 2019 by then-Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey to develop a decentralized standard for social media and has grown to have over 3…

Photo: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket (Getty Images)Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging platform launched by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has finally opened its doors to the public. For the past year or so, Bluesky has subsisted on an invite-only model that only allowed users to set up an account if they had been invited to the platform by someone already using it. Bluesky would occasionally dole out new activation codes to keep the site growing—a strategy that ensured continued hype and FOMO surrounding…

Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is getting rid of its waitlist and opening its decentralized platform to everyone. The service, which opened in beta last spring, currently has a little over users, though that number could rise quickly now that prospective users don’t need an invitation to join.It’s a significant moment for Bluesky, which began as an internal project at Jack Dorsey’s Twitter (Bluesky ended its association with the entity now known as X after Elon Musk’s takeover, though Dorsey is on…

With over 3 million users and plans to open up more broadly in the months ahead, Bluesky is still establishing itself as an alternative to Twitter/X. However, that hasn’t stopped the developer community from embracing the project and building tools to meet the needs of those fleeing the now Elon Musk–owned social network, formerly known as Twitter. One such project is deck.blue, a Bluesky-flavored version of Twitter’s beloved (though often ignored) TweetDeck — the latter of which became a paid service last year and…

The panel on stage at the Knight Foundation’s Informed event is Elon Musk’s nightmare blunt rotation: Techdirt editor Mike Masnick, Twitter’s former safety lead Yoel Roth, and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, who have come together to discuss content moderation in the fediverse. It’s been more than a year since Musk showed up at Twitter HQ with a literal sink in tow, but many social media users are still a bit nomadic, floating among various emerging platforms. And if a user made the choice to leave Twitter in the Musk era,…

Ahead of the new year, the popular decentralized social media platform Bluesky has rolled out a new update. The Bluesky update 1.61 comes less than a week after the previous update which redesigned the logo to a butterfly and made the posts public for even those who did not have an account on the platform. Now, with the new update, Bluesky has added a new in-app video and music player for links. This player will function like the native player on X (formerly Twitter) where users do not have to leave the platform to play…

screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNETFinally, Bluesky has a new logo, namely a blue butterfly. Why a butterfly? In his post, Graber called it a symbol of change and transformation."Early on, we noticed that people were organically using the butterfly emoji to indicate their Bluesky handles," Graber said. "We loved it, and adopted it as it spread. Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, we are starting to open up. Posts on Bluesky have been public from the start through the open protocol, but today we're…

Decentralized social network Bluesky is rolling out a new in-app video and music player for links, along with a new “hide post” feature. The new additions bring Bluesky’s user experience closer to X (Twitter). The new video and music player works with YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Twitch embeds. Unlike on X, where autoplay on videos is the default setting, Bluesky’s in-app player won’t autoplay content. If users watch to watch or listen to the content, they will have to trigger it with a tap.…