Decentralised Twitter?
Not many people know about the decentralised social media network Twitter is planning to launch. Almost 2 years ago they announced Blue Sky, but not much was done.
The idea was to create a decentralised standard and make Twitter the client for it. Perhaps like Steemit for Steem?
Now it seems the project has a new boss, Jay Graber . The platform doesn't even have a logo and I'm not sure Blue Sky will be the official name. But at least they finally created a website, well a page actually.
At their community page they have a list with Mastodon and other similar platforms that look so outdated today. And few people liked and used them anyway. I hope they don't have something like this in their minds.
https://bluesky-community.net/
Personally I think this is the reason Jack Dorsey has focused on #Bitcoin and I guess this and not Twitter will be the place where it could be implemented. A lot of platforms tried to do the same in the past and all failed for the simple reason that people will not tip their Bitcoin to others, let alone for a tweet. So even if Bitcoin was used on Twitter, I don't think it the majority of users will use it to tip others. It could boost the price for a few days or weeks but that's it.
As I have said, there can never be a truly decentralised social media network or any kind of DeFi or financial platform. There are many different reasons but will talk about it another time. BTW, first Jack said that Blue Sky was the name of the team and the goal was to make Twitter itself decentralised. But it seems now that it will be a separate project. "For different reasons " Twitter became centralised Jack said. I guess the VC companies wouldn't fund him with hundreds of millions if it was decentralised.
And although they have the money, Twitter never hired blockchain developers and didn't make the smallest step to make Twitter decentralised. Only "up to five architects, engineers and designers" to develop it. Even much smaller projects had more developers.
Instead, since 2018 most Twitter data is being moved to ... Google and are proudly displayed on Google Cloud website.
But at least they tried to find a good name in order to convince people that they are not totally centralised and hosted there.
