Get the latest tech news

Bluesky is funding developer projects to give its Twitter/X alternative a boost


Would-be Twitter/X rival Bluesky is looking to more directly invest in its developer community in order to foster growth. The company last week announced

The concept of decentralized social networking has been around longer than Bluesky, however, with many projects, including Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, and others, backed by the ActivityPub protocol. But Bluesky is challenging these efforts with its own AT Protocol, which it believes is an improvement over the existing option for a variety of reasons, including its support for algorithmic choice. These credits help to cover costs from cloud services, like machine learning, compute, databases, storage, containers, dev tools, and more.

Get the Android app

Or read this on TechCrunch

Read more on:

Photo of Twitter

Twitter

Photo of Bluesky

Bluesky

Photo of boost

boost

Related news:

News photo

Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, Yoel Roth, joins Tinder owner Match Group

News photo

Yoel Roth, Twitter's Former Trust and Safety Chief, Is Trying to Clean Up Your Dating Apps

News photo

Apple terminates Epic’s account, Meta platforms get knocked offline and former Twitter execs sue Elon Musk