Billionaires are a policy failure.
Twitter and Blue Sky tracking everything you do
vs. CounterSocial who is protecting your privacy.
Elon and Jack will work together to shut down the existing Twitter tech stack and move it to Bluesky.
No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating.
Bluesky built a decentralized protocol for Twitter — and is working on an app that uses it
@davetroy
Elon and Jack will work together to shut down the existing Twitter tech stack and move it to Bluesky. Anyone paying attention would know this. That’s why he’s freezing development on the existing platform. It will take a little time, but this is what they’re up to. Watch. Since everyone has amnesia, here’s Jack in April. He thinks Twitter was a mistake and it should have been a protocol. I’ve known Jack personally since 2007. This is what’s going on.
@jackIn principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.
Elon and Jack are the same entity, as far as this situation is concerned. Anyone thinking otherwise is simply delusional. All about longtermism and the “multipolar world.” For folks not yet aware of Bluesky, it’s Jack’s effort to rebuild Twitter as a protocol as opposed to a “company.” But it’s not some new competitor to Twitter, it’s Twitter 2.0, basically.
“Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.” — Jack Dorsey; this means “become a multiplanetary species.” Which is fine with me, eventually. I’m just not obsessed with it over all other priorities like they seem to be.
And let’s be really clear, Elon’s concern is that if “mob rule” (democracies) run the planet, we will extinct ourselves before we make it to all the other planets, and wouldn’t that be sad. Therefore, “smart” people like him and his friends should be in charge instead. Also folks thinking Jack somehow “outsmarted Elon” on this deal… just NO. Jack owned like 2% of Twitter, so he did well, but Jack also was the one who practically brokered this deal so that Elon could take over, because he didn’t want Twitter to be a public company. I’m just shocked at the nutzo completely baseless narratives that have taken root in the public imagination. People have no idea what’s going on, or how business works.
Q: if Twitter is replaced with Bluesky, how will he make his money back?
A: by ushering in a multipolar decentralized world, which they (he and his consortium of investors) care about more than anything else. Twitter’s current business model is a joke in comparison to that.
Q: is this a bad thing?
A: Putin’s vision of a multipolar world is pretty objectionable, if you ask me. We could use a better vision than that, and should propose one. Here’s how they can implement it via algorithms, if we let them.
What is Blue Sky Social
What is BlueSky Social?
Jack Dorsey’s new app could spark exodus from Twitter
Bluesky’s ATP Protocol would allow users to roam between a number of social platforms using only one high-quality browser — its app
Bluesky built a decentralized protocol for Twitter — and is working on an app that uses it / It’s all still very early and unfinished, but the AT Protocol is a step toward a different kind of social network
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