Bluesky social, the competitor platform to X and Threads, announced that it has officially crossed 2 million active users on the platform. What makes this achievement even more praiseworthy is that people still need an official invite from the company in order to join this platform. The bump in active users seems to indicate that they have increased the volume of invites being sent out, but the company has put out a statement on the eve of this achievement – Bluesky will soon go public.
Once the public interface is released, people, who don’t even have a Bluesky account, will be able to browse through the various accounts and see the content that is being posted on there. This is being done to enable Bluesky to become a go to source for breaking news, something similar to what X is becoming these days. There have also been calls for Bluesky to become a truly open social network like Mastodon, and in response, the company ha confirmed that they are actively working on it and they expect federation to happen sometime next year.
The reason for the delay is that Bluesky seeks to be a decentralised social network, and for that to be achieved successfully, they need to enable users to migrate their identities and content seamlessly across different servers, and for that, the company is developing the AT Protocol. Once it is ready, the Bluesky Social Network will be deployed the way users want to see it.
Do you think Bluesky Social will succeed as a decentralised social network, or will they have to succumb to deploying an algorithm like the other social networks in the market? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
