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Chris Trottier

Jack Dorsey explaining exactly why no single company should own a social media platform.

I didn’t “sell you out”. All public companies are for sale to highest bidder. Always.
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Chris Trottier

But Jack Dorsey also still prefers that Elon Musk own Twitter instead of a bank.

Which is a wild thing to say knowing what we know now.

I’d rather a technologist/entrepreneur/someone that actually uses the platform buy it than a banker/pe trying to maximize profit. But ultimately that doesn’t matter. Whoever pays highest price gets it.
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Chris Trottier

Call me crazy, but if I was in Jack Dorsey’s position, I would have converted Twitter into a consumer-owned and worker-owned co-op.

Sell it to everyone who uses Twitter and works on it.

That model works for many successful companies.

The company would have never survived as a public company. Would you rather have had it owned by hedge funds and Wall Street activists? That was the only alternative.
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Chris Trottier

I just asked Jack Dorsey why he doesn’t donate towards helping ActivityPub.

Will he reply? Because I really want to know 🙂

Jack Dorsey: I had company make the investment, am on board, and will continue to personally grant money to this and nostr and any open protocol initiatives I believe have positive impact. Me: Why don’t you donate towards helping ActivityPub? That protocol has the most momentum right now.
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Chris Trottier

Here’s how Jack Dorsey want to monetize Bluesky:

1. Subscriptions
2. Ads
3. Commerce/Transactions

Question: What is the eventual business model for this protocol and ecosystem? User donations like Fediverse/Mastodon? Please don’t say ads. Jack Dorsey: Some clients may do subscription. Some may do ads. Some may do commerce or transactions. What people want to use will decide.
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Chris Trottier

Jack Dorsey says he doesn’t believe a company should own a protocol platform and distribution.

Glad to hear he regrets Twitter.

Sooo… when will Bluesky connect to multiple nodes?

Question: Considering this, if you’d had an opportunity to run Twitter again as a private company would you have taken that route? Happy it led to this experiment with a decentralized alternative, that said. Answer: No. I don’t believe a company should own the protocol platform and distribution.
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Chris Trottier

At least Jack Dorsey doesn’t want to run Bluesky through a DAO.

Question: Fun. Maybe DAO? Jack Dorsey: Hell no. This explicitly was built without a blockchain or token. By design.
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Chris Trottier

Jack Dorsey says if AT protocol has a CEO, it fails.

I agree.

I guess Bluesky should decentralize soon.

Ultimately this protocol has no CEO. If it does, it fails. Jay and team are building something to enable everyone to own this. If the people don’t own it, it failed.
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Chris Trottier

Jack Dorsey doesn’t want AT protocol to be capable of DMs.

That means they’re probably not coming to Bluesky either.

Question: Where's the goddamn mother fuckin dm button @jack.bsky.social ??? Jack Dorsey: Use Signal
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Emelia 👸🏻

@atomicpoet that's probably a good idea.. though mentioned users only posts seems good for stuff that doesn't really strictly need privacy, just quietness?

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Chris Trottier

@thisismissem Why not integrate Bluesky with something like Matrix?

Emelia 👸🏻

@atomicpoet simplicity? idk, maybe not every app needs to be everything? Especially with federated or decentralized identity

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Chris Trottier

@thisismissem I’ve seen numerous social media platforms try to go without DMs. It rarely works.

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Emelia 👸🏻

@atomicpoet mmm, yeah, I guess integrating matrix would be okay, but iirc it doesn't have portable identity?

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Chris Trottier

@thisismissem True. I guess that’s another thing that will need to be built.

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