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1. https://slime.global/@ticky/115487801203271779
2. https://betakit.com/gander-social-raises-1-million-to-build-a-canadian-alternative-to-x-and-meta/
I sincerely believe Jack Dorsey created Bluesky to prevent the widespread adoption of ActivityPub by funding a replacement protocol that would serve the interests of big corps like Twitter rather than individuals. I believe what we see above is Dorsey's original plan working.
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1. https://slime.global/@ticky/115487801203271779
2. https://betakit.com/gander-social-raises-1-million-to-build-a-canadian-alternative-to-x-and-meta/
I sincerely believe Jack Dorsey created Bluesky to prevent the widespread adoption of ActivityPub by funding a replacement protocol that would serve the interests of big corps like Twitter rather than individuals. I believe what we see above is Dorsey's original plan working.
The blockchain-like elements of ATProto don't *exactly* prevent you from creating a second "federated" bluesky stack, but they do mean you practically have to take venture funding to do it.
(The fact blacksky was able to do this as an independent community is cool, but is I think kind of a fluke caused by the nature of Black Twitter, a fluke other communities may not be able to replicate; I have doubts northsky will get off the ground without exploding. Even Blacksky isn't quite off ground yet)
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The blockchain-like elements of ATProto don't *exactly* prevent you from creating a second "federated" bluesky stack, but they do mean you practically have to take venture funding to do it.
(The fact blacksky was able to do this as an independent community is cool, but is I think kind of a fluke caused by the nature of Black Twitter, a fluke other communities may not be able to replicate; I have doubts northsky will get off the ground without exploding. Even Blacksky isn't quite off ground yet)
(The fact Gander Socials' startup was $1 million in "equity crowdfunding" rather than a traditional soul-sell to a VC firm means maybe I'm being overly negative about it. But also maybe there are more traditional fundraising deals either to come or not yet publicly announced.)
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1. https://slime.global/@ticky/115487801203271779
2. https://betakit.com/gander-social-raises-1-million-to-build-a-canadian-alternative-to-x-and-meta/
I sincerely believe Jack Dorsey created Bluesky to prevent the widespread adoption of ActivityPub by funding a replacement protocol that would serve the interests of big corps like Twitter rather than individuals. I believe what we see above is Dorsey's original plan working.
@mcc i wonder if we could trick investors to put millions of dollars into fedi instances hosted by regular catgirls if we just used more corporatey marketing copy :P
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1. https://slime.global/@ticky/115487801203271779
2. https://betakit.com/gander-social-raises-1-million-to-build-a-canadian-alternative-to-x-and-meta/
I sincerely believe Jack Dorsey created Bluesky to prevent the widespread adoption of ActivityPub by funding a replacement protocol that would serve the interests of big corps like Twitter rather than individuals. I believe what we see above is Dorsey's original plan working.
@mcc Exactly... If only there was a W3C standard that allows different social networks to federate with each other. :)
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(The fact Gander Socials' startup was $1 million in "equity crowdfunding" rather than a traditional soul-sell to a VC firm means maybe I'm being overly negative about it. But also maybe there are more traditional fundraising deals either to come or not yet publicly announced.)
@mcc now that “pivot from nonprofit to for-profit” is an established business principle for success, presumably they will steal all the “equity” from the crowdfunders and make a “canadian version” of that “innovation” too
(this is probably extremely unfair but, like, the people that I am being unfair to here are the ones with the burden of proof at this point)
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@mcc now that “pivot from nonprofit to for-profit” is an established business principle for success, presumably they will steal all the “equity” from the crowdfunders and make a “canadian version” of that “innovation” too
(this is probably extremely unfair but, like, the people that I am being unfair to here are the ones with the burden of proof at this point)
@glyph Gander does not anywhere claim to be a nonprofit and, in fact, looking in their offering document I find they are a normal British Columbia corporation.
I did find this while poking around, which is a *very* weird comment for software apparently based on Bluesky.
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@skyfaller so, it's about having the same people for you? "Fediverse" is the name of the community, not the network?
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@evan Is the World Wide Web no longer the Web because we are browsing HTML 5 instead of HTML 4? What about the brief XHTML / semantic web period? If the same people using the same software use a different protocol, why does the name for what they're doing need to change?
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@skyfaller no.
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@evan No, I'm just using Mastodon as an example of a popular fedi software that used to run on a different protocol.
Do you think the OStatus predecessor network was meaningfully different in character than the present fediverse? It seems like the same idea, just not implemented as well, and more narrowly focused on microblogging.
Could you call the OStatus network an early fedi? Could a new protocol with similar values and goals still be meaningfully fedi?
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@skyfaller so, for you, the Fediverse is about Mastodon?
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More like Losesome Earle-Sears, am I right, folks? (I'll see myself out.)
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@stefano The people who demand moar powerrrr really need to drop their current workstation for a 266MHz Pentium 2 with 32MB RAM and a 5400 RPM hard drive.
That will force them to design better code. Or pick a different career field altogether. 🤣
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choose your unholy aerial conveyance
