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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All (slate.com)
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[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

It's the hot new non-billionaire controlled social media app for the 2020s: https://bsky.app/

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

not billionaire owned, but a bunch of VC firms led by one called Blockchain Capital already put a 15million USD bridle on them

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Non-billionaire controlled so far. It's a public benefit corporation, which is vulnerable to being Altmaned. Once it becomes valuable money will find a way.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

That's where the federated angle comes in. Not quite there yet, but as the network grows the vulnerability to the original node getting taken over by a bad actor lessens.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

A feature that makes it easier for their users to migrate to a competitor? Blockchain Capital invests $15M in BlueSky. Insert that Anakin / Padme meme:

Anakin: Now that we've invested, let's make that federation feature priority 0
Padme: As in highest priority, right?
Anakin:
Padme: As in highest priority, right?

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is blue sky federated? I thought it was another closed garden. If slightly more open than Twitter.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Bluesky grew out of a project at twitter whose goal was to create a federated protocol. Then when they were split off from twitter when Musk took over they had to start their own twitter-style platform to be the first player in that federated protocol. Now that that part is running they're gradually building out the originally planned system of allowing more servers to be part of the federation: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No. Just the same shit with less users. Let it grow (by the millions as lemmy is trying to convince us) and you’ll see. I say we get back to smoke signals

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Google will find a way to put ads in the smoke