BLUESKY OPENS SOCIAL NETWORK TO ALL

Bluesky, a Twitter-like social network championed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is now allowing anyone to create an account and join the service. Until Tuesday, anyone hoping to join Bluesky needed an invitation, which typically meant hunting down an existing member and begging for an invite. That invite-only period gave the site time to build out moderation tools and other features, Bluesky said. The social network resembles Twitter — now known as X after Tesla billionaire Elon Musk paid $44 billion for the company — in many respects, although it doesn’t yet offer direct messaging between users.