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Join the waitlist to try the beta before it's publicly available
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Bluesky is building a social protocol. We released “ADX” (the X stood for Experiment) in May. Now that the design is starting to solidify, we’re renaming it to the “Authenticated Transport Protocol” — the “AT Protocol.”
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Wow. 30k signups for our app’s waiting list in the last two days! Thanks for the overwhelming interest, we’ll do our best to get you in soon. 🔜
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It’s clear there’s a lot of interest in a new approach to social media. We’ll be rolling out invites to the private beta in stages, making sure the protocol scales and taking user feedback as we go.
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We’re hiring a Go dev!
If you have experience with large-scale systems and are excited to build fast and scalable decentralized social networks, let’s talk:
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Starting today, you don’t have to be logged in to view posts on Bluesky!
Early on, people started using the 🦋 emoji to indicate they were on Bluesky. We’ve now adopted it, as it speaks to our mission of transforming social into something new.
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👋 Olá, Brasil! Mais de 40.000 brasileiros aderiram ao Bluesky até agora.
Junte-se ao Bluesky (não é necessário código de convite):
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With the new team on board, we’re ready to share some of the groundwork we've been doing for Bluesky.
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Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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With the release of app passwords today, we’re excited to share an overview of the rapidly growing
@at_protocol
developer ecosystem!
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Substack writers: If you’d like to try Bluesky, here’s a form to get early access.
We’re still working our way through the signup list for our private beta, but would like to give faster access to writers at this time!
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Given the surge of interest in Twitter's future, we thought this would be a good time to clarify the relationship between Bluesky and Twitter.
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Your attention is an invaluable resource. We’ve been working on creating a composable, customizable marketplace of algorithms that lets you take control of how you spend your attention.
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It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally found a lead! We’re currently working through details to set up the new Bluesky entity which will operate independently from Twitter. We're excited to share more soon!
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You can use domain names as handles in Bluesky!
Here’s why we’ve designed the AT protocol to let you join a social network with a domain name as your handle.
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Like our approach to algorithmic choice, our approach to moderation allows for an ecosystem of third-party providers.
Moderation should be a composable, customizable piece that can be layered into your experience.
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Welcome to the 1M+ new users who joined Bluesky since we opened access yesterday!
Sign up here:
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By the way,
@bluesky
is an independent company from Twitter! We're a Public Benefit LLC started this year that’s funded through a contract with Twitter. Prior to this, Bluesky was a community discussion. Read more here:
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One of the goals when we announced bluesky was to develop a grounded understanding of relevant work that many talented people in the decentralization community have been doing. Today, we want to share an update on this.
Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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Thanks all for the warm welcome! Overwhelmed with the number of DMs we’ve received! Going to take us some time to get through them all. Our first goal is to find a lead who will then build the team and set the strategy. Will likely take a few months.
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The World-Wide Web wouldn’t have been much fun if it was created without a browser, and the same is true of the AT Protocol. So we’re also building a Bluesky social app.
Join the waitlist at
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After opening access yesterday, Bluesky has crossed 4M users! 🎉
• 850k+ new users have signed up
• Averaged 8.5 new accounts/second
• 2M posts were created in the last 24 hours
Sign up for Bluesky here, no invite code required:
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Our Plan for a Sustainably Open Social Network
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Os brasileiros sempre foram uma parte central da comunidade Bluesky desde o início. Participe da festa (não é necessário código de convite)! 🎉
Traduzimos o FAQ do usuário Bluesky para o português. Confira aqui:
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🔶 Account portability
A person’s online identity should not be owned by corporations with no accountability to their users. With the AT Protocol, you can move your account from one provider to another without losing any of your data or social graph.
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Billionaires like
@elonmusk
are threatened by Bluesky.
We’re building an open social network that lets you choose your own feed, gives you the right to leave, and gives communities the tools to self-govern. The skies are bluer on .
Sign up for Bluesky (no…
Exactly.
Any organization that puts “Trust” in their name cannot trusted, as that is obviously a euphemism for censorship.
We are changing the name of our Trust & Safety group, to simply
@Safety
. Trust is something that must be earned.
The goal of our Safety team is simply to…
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President
@LulaOficial
of Brazil has just joined Bluesky. Bem-vindo! 🇧🇷
Sign up for Bluesky (no invite code required):
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We also continue to send out invites to the general waitlist and to our existing users. To sign up for the general waitlist, visit .
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We pushed a temporary fix and then switched mailing list providers, so signups on are working again.
Thanks for your interest! Excited to share more soon 🎉
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🔶 Algorithmic choice
Algorithms dictate what we see and who we can reach. We must have control over our algorithms if we're going to put trust in our online spaces. The AT Protocol supports open algorithms so users have more control over their experience.
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We’re looking for a web developer that deeply cares about user experience. If you want to work with us, now is the time!
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It’s been a long time coming, but the Bluesky PBLLC is now an independent organization formed to implement our vision! Stay tuned for updates.
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Welcome Jay!
Interested in building the future of social media with us? Keep an eye out for opportunities to join the bluesky team at
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📢 Call for developers!
On the AT Protocol, third-party can be as seamless as first-party through custom feeds, federated services, and more.
We’d love to welcome more devs to join us in building these services. Fill out a form linked here:
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The AT Protocol is a new federated social network. It integrates ideas from the latest decentralized technologies into a simple, fast, and open network.
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What’s a “federated” network? It’s a way for servers to communicate with each other – like email. Instead of one site running the network, you can have many sites. Users get a choice of provider, and individuals and businesses can self-host if they want.
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What makes the AT Protocol unique:
🔶 Account portability
🔶 Algorithmic choice
🔶 Interoperation
🔶 Performance
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And if you’re interested in joining the team, we’re hiring a mobile developer!
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Bluesky was built so you don't have to put your trust in one person, one company, or one algorithm — by design. On an open social network, you actually have the freedom to choose.
More tomorrow.
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Today we're open-sourcing the Authenticated Data eXperiment (ADX) to begin working in public.
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Bluesky is built on the
@at_protocol
— check out the tutorials, starter templates, and a project showcase for the Bluesky API on our new docs site!
Build in an open ecosystem that will never lock you out. 🛠️
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Working virtually through the pandemic, this group self-organized, invited additional experts, and created a review of the ecosystem around protocols for social media. You can read it here:
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In the spirit of decentralization, we had a crazy idea: what if we brought strangers together in a virtual space to hash out a shared vision for bluesky?
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Algorithmic choice was one of the original goals we set out to achieve. We’re excited to be able to start sharing more details of our approach.
🔶 Algorithmic choice
Algorithms dictate what we see and who we can reach. We must have control over our algorithms if we're going to put trust in our online spaces. The AT Protocol supports open algorithms so users have more control over their experience.
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Bluesky is built to give users control over their social spaces online.
Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets users collaboratively inspect and label content on the network.
Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent…
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It's rare for a project to be set up like this. We’re using our freedom to focus on building, and will work towards our vision of a durable protocol for public conversation no matter what happens.
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As we mentioned, the team will have complete freedom to identify and consider all the great work already done, and if they believe it’s best to work on a pre-existing standard 100%, they will. If not, they’re free to create one from scratch. Their discretion, not Twitter, Inc’s.
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Find your favorite artists on Bluesky 🦋
Join Bluesky (no invite code required):
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for legal reasons this is a joke
join Bluesky, no invite code required:
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The bluesky project originated with Twitter in 2019, but the Bluesky PBLLC established this year is an independent company focused on decentralized social network R&D.
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Twitter's funding of Bluesky is not subject to any conditions except one: that Bluesky is to research and develop technologies that enable open and decentralized public conversation.
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Learn more on the AT Protocol website.
You’ll find a few “TODOs” in the specs, but the technology is stable enough that we can start to communicate what we’re doing now.
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Are you a DevOps engineer? Have you maintained large-scale software deployments? Do you love infrastructure-as-code, observability, and security? Let’s talk!
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Bluesky has received $13 million to ensure we have the freedom and independence to get started on R&D. Former Twitter CEO
@jack
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It’s been a long time coming, but the Bluesky PBLLC is now an independent organization formed to implement our vision! Stay tuned for updates.
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🔶 Performance
Many novel protocols don't prioritize performance, resulting in long loading times before you can see your timeline. We don’t see performance as optional, so we’ve made it a priority to build for fast loading at large scales.
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We’re excited to announce that Aaron Rodericks has joined Bluesky as our Head of Trust and Safety. Aaron, who has over a decade of experience in defending platforms at global scale, is leading our moderation team in cultivating a healthy space for public conversation on Bluesky.…
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🔶 Interoperation
The world needs a diverse market of connected services to ensure healthy competition. The AT Protocol includes a schema-based interoperation framework called Lexicon to help solve coordination challenges.
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The “public benefit” part of our structure gives us the freedom to put our resources towards our mission without an obligation to return money to shareholders. The company is owned by the team itself, without any controlling stake held by Twitter.
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Introducing Satellite: a contest on how to navigate and link multiple types of accounts and content. $300 reward in BTC to the top three submissions!
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We’ve written about how we think a durable protocol requires self-authenticating components, which require no external evidence of authenticity. This way, even if people choose to use servers run by private companies, they’ll never be locked in.
With the new team on board, we’re ready to share some of the groundwork we've been doing for Bluesky.
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Cadastre-se no Bluesky (não é necessário código de convite): 🎉
Sign up for Bluesky (no invite code required): 🎉
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Today, we're rolling out the first iteration of stackable moderation for Bluesky users.
You can create and subscribe to additional moderation services on top of what Bluesky requires, giving you unprecedented control over your social media experience.
Join Bluesky (no invite…
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Both Twitter and Bluesky realized that our independence is important to the success of the project, which is why we established an independent company to ensure that we serve the broadest possible interests.
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Check us out on Bluesky:
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We are continuing to look for a lead, and hope to find one in the coming months. We'd love to hear from people interested in this role, in partnering with us, or if there are ways to improve the ecosystem review we shared above. Our DMs are open!
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Looks like we've reached a temporary limit on mailing list signups right now -
@SendGridSupport
@SendGrid
we need up upgrade our plan and your site is not allowing it
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Just shipped: Embed Bluesky posts on other sites!
Simply click the menu on the post you want to embed, or paste its URL in for the code snippet to use on your web page.
Sign up for Bluesky (no invite code required):
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Join the conversation about
#SuperBowlLVIII
on Bluesky.
Whether you want only football commentary or if you're watching the big game for Taylor Swift, we have you covered.
With custom feeds on Bluesky, you get to choose your own timeline.
Join Bluesky (no invite code…
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Bluesky’s mission is to drive the evolution from platforms to protocols. The tools for public conversation should exist outside of private companies as common infrastructure, like the Internet itself.
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The folks we brought together would like to expand the conversation. They are hoping to put together a decentralization ecosystem review and may reach out to people and projects in the space. Recommendations are welcome!
In the spirit of decentralization, we had a crazy idea: what if we brought strangers together in a virtual space to hash out a shared vision for bluesky?
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Excited to introduce our first hires and technical advisors!
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Stop, stare, and share. 📹 We’re shipping one of our most requested features: Bluesky Shorts!
Sign up for Bluesky (no invite code required):
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Today, we’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data!
Read more here for how this will affect your experience on Bluesky (in short: it won’t) and why this matters.
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You can share Bluesky posts on other sites, articles, newsletters, and more. ✍️
Here's a user guide on how to embed a Bluesky post on your website or blog!
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Thanks to our wonderful Japanese community for organizing meetups in Tokyo and Osaka this weekend, and to
@gigazine
for covering it! ありがとう!
Sign up for Bluesky (no invite code required):
Blueskyの開発者に「鍵アカウントの実装予定は？」「日本支社の設立予定は？」など何でも聞けるイベントが開催されたので行ってみたら開発者の「やることリスト」に追加されるアイデアが続々飛び出す充実のイベントでした
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Journalists have always been one of the backbones of social media, and we're hopeful that
@bluesky
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We're sorry to see a challenger to the social media incumbents shut down, but we're excited to see what the folks at…
Post News, a start up that tried to take the place of Twitter but with a far friendlier environment for news and journalism — including an attempt to make micropayments work — announced that it will be shutting down soon.
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For some aspects, we’ll be able to use pieces that already exist, and for others, we’ll have to come up with solutions of our own. Stay tuned for updates, we’ll share more soon.
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Portability: We can switch mobile carriers without losing our phone numbers. If we could switch between social apps without losing our identity or social graph, then social media would be a competitive open market again.
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The bluesky community group over at
@bluesky_commons
has self-organized to put on a series of Spaces panel discussions. Join the identity conversation on October 15! To get involved in future conversations and events, join the Discord:
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To everyone who sent us DMs with job inquiries: Thanks for your interest, but there's now a better place to send your resumes! See how to apply at
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We're starting with a set list of GIFs from Tenor. You can turn off auto-play in your settings.
Custom uploaded GIFs and video coming soon! 🔜
Sign up for Bluesky (no invite code required):
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Our team has previously built leading decentralized web protocols and blockchain networks, and is working on synthesizing the best of what we’ve seen into something new.
@rabble
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@pfrazee
@nickoneill
@arcalinea
@bluesky
@dominictarr
@mafintosh
That's kind of the point. We don't need solitary geniuses who are going to go off and build something all new on their own. What we need is to take the best of many experiments, iterate, synthesize, and create something new based on the best ideas and models.
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me: come at me you sneezy little bitch
also me: on my way to the pharmacy to buy the strongest allergy meds
see this post and more on Bluesky (no invite code required):
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Starting last February, we invited a diverse group of people from different parts of the decentralization community to a virtual forum for collaboration + discussion. They led an inspiring conversation on the purpose bluesky is intended to serve and the directions it can take.
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At Bluesky, we’re investing in safety from two angles.
1. We've built our own moderation team dedicated to providing around-the-clock coverage to uphold our community guidelines.
2. Additionally, we recognize that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to moderation — no single…
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Here’s the backstory of how we got started, and what’s going on in the community and at the company now.
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The protocol is actively under development and will evolve as our understanding improves. If you're interested to learn more, check out the ADX architecture overview:
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Today, we did just that. Some amazing people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives are helping us write bluesky's future. A lot more interesting work to be done and will inform the team we hire
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There are many existing protocols for decentralizing discourse, including ActivityPub, SSB, Matrix, & RSS. Each of these are successful in their own right, but none of them fully met the goals we had for a network that enables global long-term public conversations at scale.
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What we’re building doesn’t fall neatly in existing categories. It could be described as a hybrid federated network with p2p characteristics, but it’s more descriptive to focus on the capabilities – self-authenticating identities and data – than on network topology.
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If you have questions about the architecture or code, drop in to our Matrix dev chat to talk to the developers. Let’s move from platforms to protocols!
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Are you a React Native expert? Have you written multiple mobile apps? Are you confident building animations, gestures, UI state managers, and everything in between? Then we want to hire you!
Come help us build the future of social:
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Don't know who needs to hear this, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.
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