Bluesky and its user community struggle with it being a vc backed company controlling the protocol. View quoted note →

Hola Montevideo. https://m.primal.net/LnYG.bin

@Mike Masnick has a new essay about what is bringing people to decentralized social protocols. He calls them Elon Musk Events (EVM’s) which drive people to leave one platform and try alternatives. He wrote the essay, Protocols, Not Platforms which really pushed forward the idea of social media protocols as a viable alternative to centralized platforms. The latest one on adopting social media protocols is somewhat focused on Bluesky but it talks about Nostr and other protocols. The point is we need to keep exploring and trying things to figure out what are the killer features that decentralized can do which isn’t easy or possible with centralized systems. Nostr has so much experimenting going on that it’s hard to keep track of which is amazing. We need to do a better job at talking to new and potential people in order that they are invited in and see value in staying.

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Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media

Last week, Bluesky, where I am on the board (so feel free to consider this as biased as can be), announced that it had raised a $15 million seed ro...

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What’s happening in the struggle for civil liberties in tech? @Fight for the Future has a sped run update. View quoted note →

While i believe it’s fully the intention of the creators that ATprotocol and Bluesky end up being a fully open permissionless protocol, the decisions they’re making around how to build and fund it means they’re going to face a lot of pressure to not actually open up. Twitter was incredibly open and even at one point federated via XMPP, but the constraints of running a VC backed platform caused the company to enclose the commons and walk away from the open network. View quoted note →

This song and music video are as an accurate a portrayal of my hometown as I think somebody could do. #humboldt

So Bluesky raised $15 million in a new round with a partner from Blockchain Capital taking a board seat.

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Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like dir...

This is huge. I’m so excited about MLS over Nostr. Good work @JeffG ! View quoted note →

Understanding from here to there ( aquí to allá ) in Spanish.