Bluesky, the decentralised social network that was co-founded by former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey, is expanding its app to all interested users, abandoning an invitation-only system that the service used to help regulate growth for the past year.
The social network opened to the public in February last year, and now claims 3 million users, but Bluesky only allowed new users via an invitation code to ensure the technology supporting the network could handle the traffic.
Another key aspect of Bluesky, known as “federation”, is also coming at the end of February, said CEO Jay Graber. Federation is a central part of Bluesky’s mission, which will allow anyone to create their own social network using Bluesky’s technology protocol.
Those various networks will be interoperable, and users of one network will be able to see posts from people on…
