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Bluesky could soon enter the social media platform rat race as its Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative quietly dropped into Apple’s App Store on Tuesday.
The Bluesky app will reportedly offer features similar to Twitter, including a home timeline of posts from users you follow, a Discover tab, and a feed of recently posted Bluesky updates. Posts can be replied to, reposted, liked and reported. But despite its similarities to Twitter, BlueSky doesn’t even sport the bigger names found on other social sites like Mastodon.
With so many Twitter clones being made, it’s hard to imagine spending time using another app, but Dorsey has a solid track record of driving engagement.
Bluesky has announced plans to run a beta in October. But with criticism from Mastodon and other developers, and Musk’s uncertain relationship with Twitter, it remains to be seen whether Bluesky can carve a niche in the already crowded social media market. looks to the AT protocol (aka ADTX, or authenticated transport protocol). The Barge explains that it is “built on four core ideals: account portability, algorithms, performance, and interoperability.”
According to The Verge, “The framework not only makes it easier to transfer your account data to another Bluesky provider, but it also gives you more control over what you see on your network.”
TechCrunch You can see a close-up of the app, which it described as “a functional, yet bare-bones, Twitter-like experience.”
perhaps that too Twitter-like. TechCrunch said: “It’s ironic that, leaving Twitter, he’ll use an app that looks and feels very similar to Twitter. JackDorsey expressed concerns about the product’s ‘information density,’ character count, in-app, etc. pondering about navigation. ”
Bluesky shows a promising future potential with its AT protocol features, but TechCrunch says it still “feels like Twitter stripped down.”
Ultimately, what makes a social media site is who makes it their online home, regardless of functionality. Bluesky is currently similar to Twitter, but it could soon be distinguished as a viable alternative for restless social media users looking for a nostalgic, more random, innocent time online.