For the past few months, Dorsey has been developing an application that will be powered by the open-source social protocol he created. This protocol is known as the Authenticated Transfer Protocol or “AT Protocol” for short.
AT is BlueSky’s main project, while the BlueSky mobile app shows how the protocol works in action. Like the ActivityPub protocol running Mastodon, AT lets you build a federated and decentralized social network, As first reported by TechCrunch. There has been some criticism of the project, particularly from Mastodon and other developers. He pointed out that ActivityPub, which is a recommended W3C standard, already powers a large and growing “fediverse” of connected servers.
What is BlueSky Project?
The Bluesky Project, now a public benefit company, was first launched in 2019 when Dorsey was CEO of Twitter. Twitter has also given it money for many years. Even though the company was started before Elon Musk bought Twitter, the two executives talked about the idea of an open-source protocol over text messages just before Musk bought Twitter.
In the text message, Dorsey told Musk that a new platform was needed. Later in November 2021, he resigned as CEO, but he remains on Twitter’s board until May 2022. Shortly thereafter, Dorsey spoke about BlueSky on Twitter, calling it “an open, decentralized standard for social media.”
