Syed Imran Haider 
Bluesky has entered the tech market as a promising app. It is still an invite-only application with a few thousand users on the platform only. While Bluesky still lacks table-stakes features, including Direct Messages (DM)s and video uploads, many users have already begun feeling that the app is where it is at.
The news went viral within the last few days when Twitter spun up its decentralized alternative – Bluesky. You can suddenly find the app filled with tech media and users you may be following on Twitter. Upon its arrival, many people are excitedly checking their Twitter accounts for things and seeing others requesting a Bluesky invite.
Viral Escape VelocityÂ
The new Twitter-like app has touched a surprising level of being viral within a few days only. It has hit the trend escape speed that all new social media platform search for as some of the most famous names over the internet.
Funded by one of the founders of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is a social media platform. Many users have already started calling it Twitter 2.0 intensely. The buzz around the app has taken prominent Twitter users like Chrissy Teigen and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by storm. Thousands of other users are in search of the Bluesky invite.
Twitter’s Alternative
It is worth mentioning that many users have been on the hunt for a Twitter-alternative social media app since Elon Musk acquired the company in 2022 and changed many things. Bluesky has come the nearest to imitating Twitter’s feel and tone.
The latest social network offers numerous core features similar to Twitter. It allows users to post photo updates and short text, share others’ posts, and respond to each other. While Bluesky arrived on the market for iOS gadgets in February and is available for Android devices in April, the app is still in the development phase.
According to the chief executive for Bluesky, Mr. Jay Graber, the similarities of the app with Twitter was no coincidence. Unlike Twitter, the decentralized system of Skyblue allows people to build their apps and communities within the platform.
Graber says his team designed Bluesky in a way that nobody could make new rules for the entire Bluesky community. The app usually works with an open protocol because other social media networks comprise traditionally walled gardens, ensuring posted content remains on their relevant platforms only.
The changes Musk brought to Twitter have led to confusion, increased misinformation, and hate speech on the platform. Therefore, Twitter users have checked some alternatives and moved to where they found a better environment.  Since Bluesky attempts to be more open and flexible to users, it may let posts go viral between various social media platforms without difficulty. In March, speculations around the app’s name were in the market, saying Mr. Dorsey wanted to transform Twitter into a new and open protocol. He aimed to free Twitter’s blue bird symbol to a sapphire sky.
How to Join Bluesky?
Since Bluesky is still in the development process, individuals cannot join it without getting an invite code from an existing user. Mr. Graber aims to make it to the general public once developers give its moderation tools a final touch.
