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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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