“A decentralized social platform” – Jack Dorsey launches “new Twitter”

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, has been a big fun of decentralized technologies, openly promoting the development of Bitcoin and Bitcoin related payment products on Twitter (Lightning Network integration) and Square’s BTC integration. Now, Jack wants to build and develop a decentralized social media platform – BlueSky.

In a series of tweets, the Twitter chief stated the centralized internet is facing huge issues including centralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and misleading information, the over-reliance on controversial and outrageous statements instead of informative statements and proprietary recommendation algorithms on sites.

Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. ?

— jack ??? (@jack) December 11, 2019

In a bid to curb the issues facing centralized social media platforms, Jack aims at providing a “decentralized, open and durable platform to enhance hosting, governance, and monetization”. Blockchain provides the fundamentals needed to build the platform.

A new decentralized Twitter – Bluesky

According to Jack, Twitter will fund five open source architects to work on the decentralized platform with a bid to integrate the social platform as a client in future. The team’s responsibility is to build on existing blockchains, or create one that provides a decentralized standard to build the social platform. Once Bluesky, the name of the decentralized standard, is created, the platform will be open to the public with no further control from Twitter.

We’re calling this team @bluesky. Our CTO @ParagA will be running point to find a lead, who will then hire and direct the rest of the team. Please follow or DM @bluesky if you’re interested in learning more or joining! ???

— jack ??? (@jack) December 11, 2019

How does this help social media?

The move to blockchain and decentralized systems offers users a chance to be in control of their data, monetization processes and content. Notwithstanding, it opens up a transparent and open platform for the public to share and receive information without the control of a single private entity.

“It will allow us to access and contribute to a much larger corpus of public conversation, focus our efforts on building open recommendation algorithms which promote healthy conversation, and will force us to be far more innovative than in the past.” – Jack Dorsey, on Bluesky.

While the dream of a decentralized social platform and internet remains promising, a lot more will need to be done to ensure scalability and security of the platform is not compromised, Jack said.

This isn’t going to happen overnight. It will take many years to develop a sound, scalable, and usable decentralized standard for social media that paves the path to solving the challenges listed above. Our commitment is to fund this work to that point and beyond.

— jack ??? (@jack) December 11, 2019

Jack has been a fond supporter of Bitcoin (BTC) and the recent plans to launch a ‘decentralized Twitter’ may come with a side piece BTC payment integration. How bullish can the blockchain field get?

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