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Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky Opens Social Network to Everyone

7Feb

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Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky Opens Social Network to Everyone

[ad_1] 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,” is also coming at the end of February, said Jay Graber, Bluesky's CEO. Federation is a central part of Bluesky's mission, which will allow anyone to create their own social network using Bluesky's technology protocol. Those various networks will be interoperable,...

AI fight! Twitter says Microsoft broke its rules for developers

[ad_1] Twitter on Thursday accused Microsoft of breaking the social network's rules for developers who access the platform's data, according to a copy of a letter seen by AFP."Microsoft may have been in violation of multiple provisions of the Agreement for an extended period of time," read the letter signed by Musk attorney Alex Spiro and sent to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella. Microsoft stopped accessing Twitter data in April, opting not to pay fees Musk demanded developers pay for APIs (application programming interfaces) that engage with the platform, according to the letter. Twitter called on Microsoft to identify all Twitter content that has been in its control during the past two years; how it is stored and what has been done with it, according to the letter sent to Nadel...

Big boost for users, Bluesky Social open-sources codebase

[ad_1] Bluesky Social, a popular beta social network, has taken a significant step towards open-source development on May 15th that will benefit users immensely. The codebase for its Bluesky Social app was made available on GitHub. This aligns with the network's goal of being "open and decentralised." Unlike Twitter, which struggles with open-source issues, Bluesky's client code is open to anyone for improvement or as a foundation for their own social networks. In contrast, Twitter's recommendation code is essentially unusable. Bluesky offers its client code to anyone interested in enhancing it or utilising it as the foundation for their own social network. The code for Bluesky, which is licensed under the MIT License, is available for use now. In just 24 hours, it has already been for...