bluesky exists just to push bitcoin. that's literally it. if bluesky takes off, we're all going to be using bitcoin in a few years, and that sucks

Submitted by twovests in just_post

The reason cryptocurrencies didn't take off is because nobody forced them on us. They got close when they got celebrities to make gambling ads, but thankfully, FTX died.

For a bunch of reasons I won't get into, BlueSky is a crazy crazy crazy crazy crazy mans (Jack Dorsey)'s attempt to give Bitcoin one last shot.

If BlueSky fills the role Twitter did, then I can promise you this timeline:

  1. BlueSky becomes widely adopted

  2. BlueSky integrates with the Bitcoin lightning network

  3. You personally resist for awhile, but it becomes almost non-optional, like credit cards or having a phone number.

  4. In the year 2033 you log on to the jstpst bluesky instance and you see someone calling it "Stallmanesque" to not have a Bitcoin wallet

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flabberghaster wrote

It's to push bitcoin? Any further reading on this?

I had heard one of the motivations was that jack was unhappy having to moderate twitter and wanted to have a federated model, similar to activity pub, but proprietary. That way if you wanted to avoid the racists, you could go on an instance that didn't allow it and jack wouldn't have to ban them. But all this, on a platform he owns so they can make money from ads.

I'm already hearing pretty bad news about their moderation practices.

I hadn't heard anything about it being a bitcoin thing, would love to know more.

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twovests OP wrote

when jack announced bluesky in 2019, he cited Platforms not Protocols, and emphasized the importance of blockchain technologies

this whole project was launched after he got to be one of the earliest adopters of the bitcoin lightning network (ie a layer 2 which centralizes payments to fix usability problems with bitcoin)

he's stated that he wants to integrate lightning (ie bitcoin) into bluesky, which like, yeah.

imagine how excited the person who came up with the name bluesky felt, pondering lightning, when they came up with the name bluesky

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500poundsofnothing wrote

didn't they abandon the blockchain stuff a while ago?

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twovests OP wrote

i didn't hear about this, when was that?

they haven't added blockchain stuff yet, but it's the direction this is definitely going

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500poundsofnothing wrote

I remember reading an article about it last year that mentioned something about how they don't have plans for anything block chain related but I ought to go find that to see if I am remembering correctly.

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yenguardian wrote

I don't even know what BlueSky is. Maybe that's a good thing.

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neku wrote

Posts on the platform have been dubbed 'skeets'[8][9] (claimed to be a portmanteau of 'sky' and 'tweet', but also a common slang term for ejaculation)[10] by frequent users, despite CEO Jay Graber pleading with users not to call them that.[11]

haha cool

i dont know enough about bluesky or bitcoin to say if youre right or not but i dont understand how they would integrate bitcoin into bluesky if its just another decentralised social networking service

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hollyhoppet wrote

i suspect you overestimate how much influence a social network most people haven't even heard of has to push a commodity most rich people (aka the ones who stay out of the news) see as largely risky and unprofitable

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devtesla wrote

dorsey is definitely a bitcoin guy and there's definitely a blockchain dreams for blue sky. however the blockchain sucks for anything that isn't a ledger and the benefits aren't apparent to users, so I think the worst that could happen is that it's some kind of cross posting thing?

I'm not using blue sky for a lot of reasons but bitcoin isn't high on the list Lol

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