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Until Tuesday, anyone hoping to join Bluesky needed an invitation, which typically meant hunting down an existing member and begging for an invite. That invite-only period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other features, Bluesky said.
Bluesky, a Twitter-like social network championed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has emerged from its cocoon and is now allowing anyone to create an account and join the service.
The invite-only period gave the social network site time to build out moderation tools and other features, it said.
Bluesky uses an algorithm called Authenticated Transfer Protocol, which allows users to use one account across multiple social media services
Bluesky resembles Twitter—now known as X after Tesla billionaire Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the company—in many respects, although it doesn’t yet offer direct messaging between users.