Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announces new social media platform Bluesky as possible alternative amid concerns over Musk takeover
- Prominent Twitter users are joining Bluesky, an invite-only social media platform created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
- Bluesky runs on an open-source, decentralized system that will allow users to create customized communities and algorithms.
- While still in beta, Bluesky aims to provide a chronological timeline and lacks Twitter's blue check verification system.
- Over a million people are on the waitlist to join Bluesky, which some see as an escape from Elon Musk's recent takeover of Twitter.
- Other budding Twitter alternatives include Post.news, Substack Notes, Mastodon, and Nostr.