Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, the social network has been degrading over time. firefighter ideas, change in the rules of the game, paid users, influencers fleeing… everything on Twitter is worse today than in 2022.
And if the only thing that kept you on the new and worse Twitter was the lack of an invitation code to Bluesky, you’re in luck. Yesterday, Tuesday, the social network Bluesky finally abandoned the invitation system and opened registration to everyone.
The Twitter competitor quickly accumulated over two million users while in closed beta phase and became a hot topic of conversation.
Goodbye to invitation by code in Bluesky
Starting this week, the application will remove its invitation system and open its doors to anyone who wants to register. And by the end of this month, it plans to start allowing external developers to host their own servers on its underlying AT protocol, designed to compete with ActivityPub.
The idea is that Bluesky users can opt for experiences not managed by the company and take their profiles to rival applications on the network.
In an interview with The Verge, CEO Jay Graber says that the team needed to further develop their moderation features and get their infrastructure in a stable state before finally leaving the closed beta. She says the app has seen over 3 million sign-ups since its launch a year ago and that there have been “many more downloads”.
The hope is that some of those people will become active users now that they don’t need an invitation to join, and that Bluesky can play a role as a conversation platform for a more general audience.
Bluesky has been established as a public utility operation and has just under 40 full-time employees, of which approximately half work in moderation and user support.
According to Graber, the Bluesky application has 1.6 million monthly users and 25,000 personalized feeds (an exclusive feature of the AT protocol that powers it) to choose from.
In the coming weeks, when Bluesky launches the AT protocol for external developers, anyone will be able to, in theory, create a server with their own rules.
