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Tim Bray

@anildash @polotek Bluesky has an economic model? I must be missing something…

14 February at 16:27 | Wall-to-wall | Open on cosocial.ca
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Marco Rogers replied to Tim

@timbray @anildash I think he means they are gonna be profit-driven eventually. Which probably means ads.

14 February at 16:29 | Open on social.polotek.net
just read the instructions replied to Marco

@polotek

they've already raised seed funding from "angel investors", they will doubtless continue to raise money from marks.

given the founders' known propensities, they're probably using the content posted there for LLM datasets, which they'll sell.

economic models don't require ads.

@timbray @anildash

14 February at 18:17 | Open on octodon.social
oisin replied to just read the instructions

@timbray @anildash @polotek @dgold "extremists about consent" -- wat -- the whole thing about consent is that it is opt-in

14 February at 22:45 | Open on mastodon.ie
Anil Dash replied to just read the instructions

@dgold @polotek @timbray I don’t think that’s correct.

15 February at 1:00 | Open on me.dm
Bruce Elrick replied to Tim

@timbray @anildash @polotek

Technically burning through someone's capital on the way to starting the enshittification cycle *is* an economic model.

14 February at 16:51 | Open on cosocial.ca
FinchHaven replied to Tim

@timbray

"Bluesky has an economic model?"

Jack Dorsey has words about this:

"The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence"

and yet

"I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol."

Here:

"[A] native internet protocol for social media ~ Jack Dorsey
December 14, 2022 ~ ABN"

americanbuddhist.net/2022/12/1

The entire manifesto makes for interesting reading, all the way forward in February of 2024

cc @anildash @polotek

@timbray

"Bluesky has an economic model?"

Jack Dorsey has words about this:

"The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence"

14 February at 17:11 | Open on sfba.social
pmonks (330ppm) replied to Tim

@timbray @anildash @polotek Presumably rage-click driven ad revenue… …like every successful for-profit social media platform to date.

14 February at 17:13 | Open on sfba.social
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