Former twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey reveals the roadmap of his next social protocol, Bluesky Social app. The app is ready to launch soon along with a protocol dubbed the ‘AT Protocol’.
After a wait of three years since the initiative was announced by Dorsey in December 2019. The aim was to enable social media users to have control over their data and be able to move it from platform to platform without permission.
The new protocol has been renamed from ADX to Authenticated Transfer Protocol. It is described as a protocol for large-scale distributed social applications that will allow for account portability, algorithmic choice, interoperability, and performance.
The domain names in the AT protocol will handle the user identity for example, @alice.com. These would then map to cryptographic URLs, securing the users’ accounts and data. This data can also be ported from one provider to another without losing any of your data or social graph.
The protocol also includes interoperation, enhanced performance, and algorithmic choice. Which will give users access to an open market of algorithms, similar to the way that users interacting with Web search engines are free to select their indexers.
Bluesky explained that with this users will have more control over what they see and who they reach on social media platforms using the protocol, rather than that aspect being controlled and manipulated by a single corporation seeking engagement.
The Bluesky Social will launch soon and is currently allowing users to join a private waitlist to test the beta before opening it up to the wider public. Though they have reached a temporary limit on mailing signups, from users signing up for the beta, before switching to mailing list providers to allow for signups to resume.
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