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Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Hello,

I skimmed through the article. Isn’t Bluesky one billionaire purchase away from becoming the new X (and in this case, I don’t mean Twitter)?

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thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yep. And that’s far from the only way it could work out badly. I talk about this a bit in the section on “Bluesky is a useful counterweight to Threads”

Bluesky is far from perfect. They’re venture-funded, so likely to end with an exploitative business model. They’ve got a surveillance-capitalism friendly all-public architecture. It’s great that Jack Dorsey’s no longer on the board but he was.

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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No. It’s already owned by multibillionaire Jack Dorsey.

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- flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is straight up misinformation, Dorsey was on the Bluesky’s board, but left in May. As far as I’m aware, he’s never even invested in the company (but he has given money to the nostr devs).
  
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  - thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Correct. Dorsey’s early involvement is certainly grounds for concern – the way I think of it, he’s gone now but his stench lingers on – but he’s not influential there going forward.
    
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  - catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh, I didn’t know that. Everything I’ve heard about it associates them together.
    
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