Jack Dorsey Launching A New App As Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter

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While Elon Musk takes ownership of Twitter, Jack Dorsey is moving connected his latest venture, Bluesky Social. Here's everything you request to know.

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As Elon Musk settles successful arsenic Twitter's caller owner, Jack Dorsey is gathering a caller societal network. 

The Twitter co-founder, who stepped down arsenic CEO successful Nov. 2021, and near the committee of directors six months later, has present turned his absorption to a caller venture: Bluesky Social, a decentralized societal web protocol.

And according to Dorsey, Bluesky volition not beryllium competing with Twitter successful the accepted sense, arsenic helium noted recently that the app volition alternatively be "a rival to immoderate institution trying to ain the underlying fundamentals for societal media oregon the information of the radical utilizing it."

The institution precocious laid retired its imaginativeness for the level sharing precisely what to expect from this newest societal network.

"The World-Wide Web wouldn't person been overmuch amusive if it had been created without a browser, and the aforesaid goes for the AT (Authenticated Transfer) protocol," the institution wrote connected Twitter on Oct. 18. "So we're besides gathering a societal exertion called Bluesky."

What does this mean? Bluesky volition let societal media users to beryllium successful implicit power of their algorithms. 

"Algorithms dictate what we spot and who we tin reach," the Bluesky squad wrote in a abstracted tweet "We indispensable person power implicit our algorithms if we're going to spot successful our online spaces."

But don't expect Bluesky to effort to vie with Twitter. As Dorsey said successful a Dec. 11 tweet, "The extremity is for Twitter to yet beryllium a lawsuit of this standard." 

Musk, who completed his acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, has started making his mark, with respective elder figures—including existent CEO Parag Agrawal—already exiting the tech company.

Hours earlier officially becoming Twitter's owner, the Tesla CEO shared an unfastened missive stating his intentions for the societal media platform. Specifically, helium noted successful the Oct. 27 missive posted to the app, that he does not privation it to go "a free-for-all hellscape, wherever thing tin beryllium said without consequences."

He also shared his crushed for wanting to acquisition the app successful the archetypal place.

"The crushed I acquired Twitter is due to the fact that it is important to the aboriginal of civilization to person a communal integer municipality square, wherever a wide scope of beliefs tin beryllium debated successful a steadfast manner, without resorting to violence," Musk said. "I did it to effort to assistance humanity, whom I love."

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After the woody was solidified, the SpaceX laminitis celebrated with a bid of tweets including "the vertebrate is freed" and "let the bully times roll" before announcing the instauration of a contented moderation council.

"Twitter volition beryllium forming a contented moderation assembly with wide divers viewpoints," helium tweeted on Oct. 28. "No large contented decisions oregon relationship reinstatements volition hap earlier that assembly convenes."

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