Not happy with Musk taking over Twitter? Jack Dorsey Has a Choice

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is beta testing a new social media application -- Bluesky amid the Twitter acquisition of Elon Musk.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally took charge of the microblogging platform this week, after months of dragging the Twitter deal. In one of his first actions as the owner of Twitter, Musk sacked top Twitter executives including Parag Agarwal and Vijaya Gadde. Internet users had mixed reactions to Musk's Twitter acquisition. Some are happy, some are not.

If you're not happy with Tesla CEO Elon Musk taking control of Twitter and are looking for an alternative to the microblogging site, there's good news for you. According to a report in People, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is beta testing a new social media application. Dorsey announced that his decentralized social app Bluesky is seeking beta testers a week before Musk takes control of the company.

Bluesky was started in 2019 by Twitter to help the social media giant develop a similar decentralized concept. Dorsey resigned from Twitter's board in May 2022 and stepped down as Twitter CEO in November 2021.

"The next step is to begin testing the protocol. Distributed protocol development is a difficult process," the company shared in a news release earlier this week. “It requires coordination from multiple parties once the network is deployed, so we are going to start in private beta to sort out the issues.

"As we do beta testing, we'll continue to iterate over the protocol specifications and share details about how it works. When it's ready, we'll move to open beta," it added. Shared a link to sign up. Test waiting list.

The new app will use an Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol), a federated social network run by multiple sites, rather than a single site, the release said.

"The word 'BlueSky' connotes a wide open space of possibility. This was the original name for this project before it took shape, and remains the name of our company," the release said. "We're calling the application we're building BlueSky because it will be a portal to a world of possibility on top of the AT protocol."

Dorsey shared on Twitter last week that BlueSky "intends to be a competitor to any company that is trying to own the underlying fundamentals of social media or the data of the people who use it".