Bluesky: The Decentralized Twitter Alternative That's Taking the Internet by Storm

It is associated with Jack Dorsey, who introduced the project in 2019.

Bluesky looks and works like Twitter, with a timeline of posts from followed users, the ability to repost, and a lack of direct messages, video or live streams.

It limits new users to the bsky.social network, and it uses its own protocol rather than the standard ActivityPub used by other decentralized platforms like Mastodon.

People are joining Bluesky because it is similar to late 2000s Twitter, and it has a limited array of famous faces and news outlets.

Jack Dorsey's involvement in the project is minimal.

Bluesky is a social media app that is currently in a testing phase and has only recently reached 100,000 users.

To join the app, users must receive an invite code from an existing user, and those deemed "trustworthy" may receive more than one code.

The app is still in the process of being developed and some features may be temporarily switched off.

The app is not yet fully open for business, and it may be difficult for users to curate a feed similar to their Twitter timeline.