{"id":11084,"date":"2021-08-17T05:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/former-zcash-developer-to-lead-twitters-decentralized-social-media-project-bluesky\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:34:08","slug":"former-zcash-developer-to-lead-twitters-decentralized-social-media-project-bluesky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/former-zcash-developer-to-lead-twitters-decentralized-social-media-project-bluesky\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Zcash Developer to Lead Twitter\u2019s Decentralized Social Media Project Bluesky"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 11, 2019, the CEO of Twitter announced the company was funding a project aimed at creating a decentralized social media standard. Jack Dorsey said that the ultimate goal of the project dubbed \u201cBluesky\u201d is for Twitter to be a client of the standard. A year and eight months later, Bluesky announced that a former software engineer from the Zcash project, Jay Graber, will be leading the Bluesky initiative.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crypto Dev Jay Graber Will Lead the Bluesky Project<\/h2>\n

The Twitter initiative to decentralize social media called Bluesky<\/a> will be led by someone involved with cryptocurrency development. On August 16, 2021, the former Zcash software developer Jay Graber<\/a> announced that she will be leading the project going forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to announce that I\u2019ll be leading Bluesky,\u201d Graber tweeted<\/a> on Monday. \u201cAn initiative started by Twitter to decentralize social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey<\/a>, also welcomed Graber to the project on Monday. \u201cJay will be leading Bluesky,\u201d Dorsey tweeted<\/a>. \u201cAnother step towards decentralizing Twitter and social media. Now we can move much faster, and through code.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dorsey revealed the project in December 2019 when the Twitter CEO said: \u201cTwitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dorsey added:<\/p>\n

The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. Twitter was so open early on that many saw its potential to be a decentralized internet standard, like SMTP (email protocol). For a variety of reasons, all reasonable at the time, we took a different path and increasingly centralized Twitter.<\/p>\n

Dorsey further explained that Bluesky is meant to change the centralized social media model and the Twitter CEO also brought up bitcoin<\/a>. \u201cSquare is doing exactly this for bitcoin with Square Crypto,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

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Bluesky Wants to Spark the \u2018Decentralized Public Conversation\u2019<\/h2>\n

The Bluesky website is called blueskyweb.org<\/a>, and the page is very bare and has a brief description of the project\u2019s goals. \u201cWe\u2019re focusing on re-building the social web by connecting disconnected silos and returning control of the social experience to users,\u201d Bluesky says. The website continues:<\/p>\n

Our mission is to develop and drive the adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.<\/p>\n

Introducing InterRep, a reputation service. Goal: Make social account reputations portable to web3. Implementation: A service that mints a NFT reputation badge attesting an account is linked to an address. https:\/\/t.co\/0xdqirljOJ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jay Graber (@arcalinea) July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

Graber joined the Zcash team (electriccoin.co<\/a>) in July 2016 and before that, she was an engineer at Skuchain. \u201cI look forward to partnering closely with Twitter and other companies as we embark on this journey,\u201d Graber said<\/a> on Monday. \u201cIt won\u2019t happen overnight, but we\u2019ll share our progress along the way. If you\u2019re interested in joining Bluesky, we have open roles on our website blueskyweb.org,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Just recently, Graber also introduced<\/a> Interrep, a reputation service that can link with Twitter and web3. \u201cInterrep<\/a> started from the high level goal of making reputations on centralized social platforms more accessible to web3 apps, while preserving privacy more than public attestations, and executed on a simple solution: use a centralized server to act as a bridge,\u201d Graber said.<\/p>\n

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What do you think about the Twitter-backed Bluesky project and Jay Graber leading the decentralized social media team? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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