“The billionaire proof is in the way everything is designed, and so if someone bought or if the Bluesky company went down, everything is open source. What happened to Twitter couldn’t happen to us in the same ways, because you would always have the option to immediately move without having to start over.” and “There’s a lot on the road map, and I’ll tell you what we’re not going to do for monetisation. We’re not going to build an algorithm that just shoves ads at you, locking users in. That’s not our model.”

There’s a saying they have at Bluesky, “the organization is a future adversary”. Meaning they are building atproto (the AT Protocol bluesky is based on) to be resilient against being locked in and made proprietary by Bluesky itself in the future when or if it is owned by people who are focussed only on monetising the user base and not on what’s best for an open network protocol that serves people. So even the CEO herself (who has majority ownership in the company), wants to build out atproto as an independent network before it can be polluted by the pressure of investors wanting to capitalise.

www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-says-x-rival-is-billionaire-proof.html

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