ha, ok. still kinda smells like a giant ol, single big tech to me. primary components still operated by a single board with monetary goals in mind..
the king is dead. long live the king vibes
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"The former head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, created it. He even once said he wanted Bluesky to be a decentralised version of Twitter that no single person or entity owns. But Mr Dorsey is no longer part of the team behind it, having stepped down from the board in May 2024. He deleted his account altogether in September. It is now run and predominantly owned by chief executive Jay Graber as a US public benefit corporation."
...as a public benefit corporation.
I would encourage everyone to read about what a Benefit Corporation is. It's still for-profit, but being public benefit gives the officers a little protection from shareholders suing them when stock performance goes down. In theory, this protects them from being driven solely by profit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
However, there's no real guidance or oversight on whether a company still qualifies for that designation. They can self-audit, they can vote to change to a normal corporation at any time, switch back again, etc. This is not a different tax classification, this is a corporate board promise, and I have no reason to think they'll stay a public benefit corporation, even if they have the best intentions right now.
Agreed. Still, better than xitter, no? I'm cheering bluesky or whatever, just to watch elon lose eyes.
I just want to see x burn as a result of elon and the last few years though. I have a strong bias (and a gag reaction to cyber trucks), I'll admit that up front. I feel myself becoming really jaded and I hate it.
i just wish theyd stop calling themselves a federating platform when they have yet to prove that.
Yeah, still a net positive. Not complaining, just informing.
I've just seen the "it's federated ~~(eventually)~~" and "it's a public benefit corporation" tossed around on occasion like they're exonerating evidence, and I would hate to see people get tricked into a false sense of security.
I'm with you. BS isn't the savior of anything, imo.
I respect your opinion and genuinely appreciate the information also. Thanks for posting that. I learned something today.
Literally no. They are planning all of this, they are simply still in the 'grow' phase.
Lol they certainly aren't planning all this. None of them are that particularly bright. All this conspiratorial tone gives them far more credit than any of them have ever been due.
Blue Sky will not become a heavily monetized enshitified platform because of some Machiavellian conspiracy. It will become that. Because it is what un regulated capitalist structures must become. Hell even the regulated ones have a hard time not being that way.
Jesus Christ my guy we get it.
Now can you stop spamming this bullshit everywhere you can?
Psycho can't keep his/her thumbs away from the post button. So let's have a poll: https://strawpoll.com/7rnzV89aDnO
Just block the user. I like Bluesky but I'm tired of the constant posts too.