Bluesky opened for beta. Timing seems pointedly adversarial vis-à-vis twitter? Haven’t really followed this subplot. What’s going on with it? Makes Musk and Dorsey seem vaguely frenemyish
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AFAIK team owns it and twitter has no formal control. And I assume bitcoin-based given jack’s maxi posture
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This article uses the word "blockchain" 7 times and describes the @at_protocol as a "blockchain-based social media platform", but please take a closer look at our design: there's no blockchain.
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Dorsey clearly had & still has high hopes that Bluesky will ship something that Twitter itself can also use to interop with Twitter-alternatives, to claim openness & help shift away some of the oppressive pressure that exists on Twitter Inc, worldwide, to "decide all things". …
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If so, boldest self-disruption bet since the iPad
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and, as Dorsey rolled his ~2.5% ownership over into Musk's private entity, he'll surely have Musk's ear on this.
but whether Twitter ever cedes an inch of its incumbent advantage to potential competitors remains to be seen. …
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Seems like Jack wants to recreate Twitter functionality as a protocol, which Twitter (the product/company) would rebuild itself around. Like if Microsoft Windows were gutted and became a skin + backwards-compatibility VM on top of an open flavor of Unix.
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