Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky app comes to Android

Bluesky, Jack Dorsey’s alternative to Twitter, is currently available on Android devices by invitation only and is very limited so far.

Bluesky, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter alternative, is now invite-only available on Android devices after appearing on the App Store in February, according to The Verge. The app currently offers a number of Twitter-like features, including searching and following other users, creating messages (with photos), and more. Currently, it is still only in beta, only a small number of users (about 25,000) have access to it, and some important features, such as direct messages, are still missing.

Bluesky, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter alternative, is coming to Android devices

Bluesky started to emerge in 2019 when it was just a side project implemented by Twitter around a new decentralized standard for social media platforms. In 2021, the project officially distanced itself from Twitter and is now part of a long list of Twitter clones, such as Mastodon, following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform.

The application is conceived and designed in such a way that users can decide how they want to view and consume content. “For developers, an open algorithm market will provide the freedom to experiment and release algorithms that anyone can use,” CEO Jay Graber wrote last month. “For users, the ability to personalize their feed will give them back control of their most valuable resource: their attention.”

By invitation only, for now, and still very limited

Jay Graber said that moderation is one of the last pieces of this puzzle that needs to be done before the app can be rolled out to everyone, “because we always wanted to make user safety a priority,” he wrote in a recent post on his website. blog. To do this, a combination of automated filtering and moderation at the server level, controlled by administrations, will be implemented. Next, “we will allow users to set up additional moderation measures to allow more content or accounts to be filtered.”