*Bluesky, an open source branch of twitter, recently released a decentralized social networking protocol. At present, officials call the system authentication data experiment (ADX) , the source code has been opened for user testing on GitHub *, and it is emphasized that the project is in the early development state and various functions are not perfect.
Bluesky project was planned in 2019 and officially launched in early 2022. The GitHub repository includes an overview of the objectives and design of ADX and some experimental code. Jay Graber, CEO of bluesky, wrote that ADX will be the beginning of a semi open development process.
Graber said the code was provided under the MIT license. "We need to take a middle path and release before the work is finished, but also give ourselves time to discuss new directions at an early stage. Please be free to play, but don't try to build your next large social application on this basis. Many functions are missing and things will change," he said.
ADX is not a single, independent social network design. It is a protocol built around a user controlled "personal data repository" that social network developers can choose to support. Among other things, it should allow users to transfer social media posts or participation between networks without compromising the network's own audit options.
"On the web, this data exists on the social platform that created it. In ADX, this data will exist in the personal data repository owned by users. The platform can choose to index only this content - distinguish between" voice "or the ability to keep data in the repository and" influence "or the ability to see this data on a specific platform," the overview said.
ADX appeared a week after Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk reached an agreement to acquire twitter. One of Musk's plans is to "open source the [twitter ] algorithm" to increase trust in the platform.
But bluesky is a pre-existing initiative with somewhat different goals. Former CEO Jack Dorsey announced in 2019 that Twitter would fund research on a decentralized version of its service. Greber joined in 2021 and bluesky was founded in February 2022. It is a public welfare company focusing on "large-scale adoption of open and decentralized public dialogue technology".