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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,”…

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…

Block Inc. began cutting jobs as part of the firm's goal to cap its workforce at 12,000 employees. Block, run by Jack Dorsey, announced the cap when it reported third-quarter earnings in November, and took steps to achieve the goal on Tuesday, according to the company. Block, which offers the Cash App and Square payments services, said the goal of 12,000 staffers will be achieved by the end of the year. The company declined to give specific details on how many jobs were affected. It has sought to rein in costs amid…

is the latest notable tech company to lay off hundreds of workers, according to reports. CEO Jack Dorsey is said to have informed employees that the company is firing a "large number" of them, with , and the foundational (i.e. operations) teams bearing the brunt of the impact. According to a source, Block is letting go nearly 1,000 people.Dorsey reportedly wrote in his memo that the company is becoming leaner. It from the Tidal team in December. Last year, Block said it planned to limit its headcount to around 12,000…

We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon (well, some of us did). We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social media users, 2023 was a year of beginnings and endings, with some soul-searching in between.Here's a look back some of the biggest stories in social media in 2023 — and what to watch for next year: GOODBYE TWITTERA little more than a year ago, Elon Musk walked into Twitter 's San Francisco headquarters,…

Twitter is officially dead. Since Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of it late last year, people have been saying it’s dead or dying or will die. Musk ended the argument when he renamed the app “X.” And now, so many people seem to pine for the days when Twitter was good. But let me tell you, it was never good. It was a place of sadness and attention farming; a place for enemies and humiliation. It was, in short, shit.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedAfter renaming and subsuming Jack Dorsey’s…

 Block Inc. is offering a new hardware Bitcoin wallet as crypto advocate Jack Dorsey focuses the payments company formerly known as Square more on security and self-governance for the digital-asset sector.  Called Bitkey, the wallet allows users to self-custody the cryptocurrency on a hardware device that resembles a USB thumb drive. While similar products have been available for a while, the majority of crypto assets are still held on trading platforms.  Dorsey unveiled the San Francisco-based company's efforts to…

Music streamer Tidal has announced that it will lay off 10 percent of its staff as part of a cost-cutting strategy detailed last month by Jack Dorsey, CEO of parent company Block Inc. The move affects approximately 40 people from multiple departments, including Tidal's playlist curation team. "We do not take these decisions lightly, and we are sincerely grateful for the contributions of our impacted teammates,” a Tidal spokesperson said in an email seen by Bloomberg.In early November, Dorsey said Block would cap its…

Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can’t use their ad systems to question the legitimacy of the American election system — unless you have a credit card, in which case they’re happy to help. It’s a change that mirrors shifts across the rest of the Silicon Valley.How Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Spiral Out of Control on the Internet | TechModoUntil recently, Meta’s policy banned ads…