Twitter’s decentralized, open-source offshoot just released its first code

Bluesky, Twitter's open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The system is dubbed the Authenticated Data Experiment (or ADX) and is available on GitHub for developers to test, although Bluesky emphasizes that it's incomplete. It's one of the most substantive windows into Bluesky's workings since the project was conceived in 2019 and formally incorporated in early 2022.

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber writes that ADX will be the start of a semi-public development process. We're going to take a middle path of releasing work before it's complete, but also giving ourselves time to workshop new directions at early stages," Graber says. The GitHub repository includes an overview of ADX's goals and...

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