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Meta to scrap fact-checkers in favor of ‘free expression’

The social media company will switch to a community notes model similar to the X platform’s, Meta said.

Social media giant Meta, formerly Facebook, plans to replace third-party fact-checkers with a community notes model akin to rival X’s to promote “free expression,” according to a Jan. 7 announcement. 

Meta will also lift restrictions on “topics that are part of mainstream discourse” to focus enforcement on “illegal and high-severity violations” and enable users to “take a more personalized approach to political content,” Meta said.

“In recent years we’ve developed increasingly complex systems to manage content across our platforms, partly in response to societal and political pressure to moderate content. This approach has gone too far,” according to Meta’s blog post. 

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Could Bitcoiners embrace BlueSky, an X alternative that hit 25M users?

The social media platform has roughly doubled its number of users since November, suggesting it may have pulled some US-based X users after the presidential election.

The social media website initially kicked off by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey has hit more than 25 million users as some abandon or completely delete their X accounts, leading many to question how the platform will differ in content, moderation and tone. 

BlueSky reported that its total number of users had reached more than 25 million as of Dec. 12, roughly double the platform had after the United States election on Nov. 5. The social media site still comes up short compared to Meta’s Threads, which has more than 275 million monthly active users, and X, with more than 250 million daily active users as of 2022. 

It’s difficult to estimate the exact number of users who may have left X directly in response to Elon Musk purchasing the platform and becoming involved in US politics. Musk has also been a proponent of Dogecoin (DOGE), even proposing President-elect Donald Trump create a “government efficiency” position based on an acronym of the memecoin’s ticker symbol.

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Bluesky adds 1 million new users in 3 days amid X ban in Brazil

The decentralized microblogging platform has seen traffic and user numbers surge following the X expulsion from Brazil. 

American decentralized microblogging social platform Bluesky has seen a surge in adoption and user growth in Brazil following the country’s ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

In a post on X on Sept. 1, Bluesky Social, also known as Bsky — which looks and feels very similar to Musk’s rival platformreported that it had accrued a million new users over the past three days. 

On Aug. 30, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the suspension of X in the country after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative for the firm.

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Jack Dorsey leaves board of decentralized social network Bluesky

After backing and funding Bluesky when he was CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey has left the board of the social network.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has left Bluesky’s board — the decentralized social media platform he conceived and funded in 2019 when he was Twitter’s CEO.

Bluesky confirmed Dorsey’s exit in a May 5 post on the platform, writing that it was “searching for a new board member” and thanked Dorsey for his help in starting and funding the project.

Hours earlier, Dorsey had responded with a curt “no” to someone on X asking if he was still on Bluesky’s board. Neither Bluesky nor Dorsey explained why he decided to leave. Bluesky did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Waitlist for Decentralized Social Media Network Backed by Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Garners 30,000 Signatures

Waitlist for Decentralized Social Media Network Backed by Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Garners 30,000 Signatures

A decentralized social network app developed by an initiative funded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is gaining massive interest. BlueSky, the creator of the social networking technology AT Protocol, says the number of people who want to test the beta version of the app before its official rollout exploded over the last two days. The […]

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Jack Dorsey unveils decentralized social with algo choice and portable accounts

The long-awaited “Bluesky Social” app is now accepting users for private beta and says it will “launch soon”

Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey have lifted the curtain on the latest iteration of its social protocol and a new Bluesky Social app — as part of its decentralized answer to Twitter. 

The Oct. 18 announcement comes nearly three years since the initiative was announced by Dorsey in December 2019, with the aim that social media users should have control over their data and be able to move it from platform to platform without permission.

The new protocol has been renamed from “ADX” to “Authenticated Transfer Protocol” — or AT Protocol — and is described as a “protocol for large-scale distributed social applications” that will allow for account portability, algorithmic choice, interoperability and performance.

Under the protocol, user identity will be handled by domain names in the AT protocol, such as @alice.com. These would then map to cryptographic URLs which will secure the users’ account and its data.

This data can also be ported from one provider to another “without losing any of your data or social graph.”

Other features of the protocol include interoperation and enhanced performance, as well as “algorithmic choice” — giving users access to “an open market of algorithms,” similar to the way that users interacting with Web search engines are free to select their indexers.

Bluesky explained that this means users will have more control over what they see and who they reach on social media platforms using the protocol, rather than that aspect being controlled and manipulated by a single corporation seeking engagement.

Bluesky previously described its content moderation model as occurring in “multiple layers through the system, including in aggregation algorithms, thresholds based on reputation, and end-user choice.”

“There’s no one company that can decide what gets published; instead there is a marketplace of companies deciding what to carry to their audiences.”

Responding to a user’s question on Twitter, Dorsey also confirmed that a user could choose “no algorithms.”

However, not much is known about the new social app — named Bluesky Social — other than it will “launch soon,” and is currently allowing users to join a private waitlist to test the beta before opening it up to the wider public.

Bluesky noted it reached a “temporary limit on mailing signups” from users signing up for the beta, before switching to mailing list providers to allow for signups to resume.

“We’re looking forward to sharing more about the Bluesky application as it develops,” it said.

Related: ‘Decentralized Twitter’ Bluesky releases code, outlines content moderation

The decentralized social platform could be one answer to the centralized manipulation of’ social media feeds, accounts, and data, which has been criticized by many as harmful to social cohesion.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has previously criticized Twitter’s crackdown on “misinformation,” saying in April that under his prospective leadership, Twitter should be “reluctant to delete things” and permanently ban accounts, and he would endeavor to encourage free speech according to respective countries’ laws.

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‘Decentralized Twitter’ Bluesky releases code, outlines content moderation

Bluesky outlined that it is “not possible to have a usable social network without moderation,” and intends to build a moderation model for the network dubbed “speech and reach.”

Twitter’s decentralized social media project Bluesky has released its first batch of code, and also committed to content moderation on the network.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey first announced Bluesky back in late 2019, but the project went independent in February after receiving $13 million worth of funding from Twitter. However, Dorsey is still a member of the board.

Bluesky released its “Authenticated Data eXperiment” (ADX) protocol code via a May 5 blog post titled “Working in Public.” The team noted that it will be publicly sharing the process of developing the platform by “releasing work before it’s complete, but also giving ourselves time to workshop new directions at early stages.”

Developers are now free to experiment with the network architecture, but Bluesky notes that it is still very basic, and that “things are missing, and things are going to change.”

At this stage, the ADX protocol will utilize “self-authenticating data” which is a model that enables operations on a network to be certified independently without a centralized host or authority. The general idea is that the user will have control over their data and can move it from platform to platform without permission, which is an idea central to the Web3 movement.

“Self-authenticating data moves authority to the user and therefore preserves the liveness of data across every hosting service.”

Content moderation

While the platform will be decentralized, Bluesky outlined that it is “not possible to have a usable social network without moderation,” and intends to build a moderation model for the network dubbed “speech and reach.”

It continued: “Moderation occurs in multiple layers through the system, including in aggregation algorithms, thresholds based on reputation, and end-user choice. There's no one company that can decide what gets published; instead there is a marketplace of companies deciding what to carry to their audiences.”

Bluesky also outlined that hosting providers will still be legally required to “remove illegal content according to their local laws.”

Related: Binance commits $500M to co-invest in Twitter with Elon Musk

Following reports that Elon Musk is set to take over Twitter for $44 billion, Bluesky explained via the social media platform on April 26 that this move will have no bearing on the company.

While Twitter did back Bluesky with $13 million, the project noted that the only condition of the deal is that the team must “research and develop technologies that enable open and decentralized public conversation.”

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