Honest question.
-
Mastodon Migrationreplied to David Zappelli last edited by
Agree that it could be easier, but if you want to create a WordPress blog and attach it to the Fediverse here is a very detailed step by step tutorial:
If you already have a WordPress blog you can skip the steps for creating it, and go straight to connecting it to the Fediverse.
-
Mastodon Migrationreplied to Joanna Czechowska last edited by
And she may mean it. That's one reason why it is necessary to know who actually owns the company.
-
Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:replied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration You googled it. Anyway, just another corporate platform with strings pulled by techbros, cryptobros, general ne'er-do-wells. The Fediverse is the only place people can get a break from these fundamentally corruptible corporate capitalist entities. Eventually they all eat their users.
-
Mastodon Migrationreplied to Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: last edited by
"Googled it" is really interesting, because the Google answer is wrong. It can not be accurate due to publicly available information on investment in Bluesky, but reflects what the company puts out in their statements. So the question arises, why is the company misrepresenting their ownership picture?
Not disagreeing with anything you wrote. Just trying to get people to be exercise more critical thinking about the platforms they join.
-
Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:replied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration It's just a verb these days. I use DDG and Wikipedia primarily.
-
Mastodon Migrationreplied to Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: last edited by
Yup, and they both capture the same statement. That Bluesky is owned by Jay Graber and the employees.
This is apparently not a true statement, and we have learned that it matters what the ownership is of social media platforms.
It's pretty interesting that the company has chosen to deliberately misrepresent the full picture here.
-
Bluesky is a Public Benefit Corporation and OpenAI is working hard to become one. Perhaps that’s significant.
-
It may, or it may just be window dressing. The lack of transparency about their equity picture and the deliberate misrepresentation concerning being a 'distributed' network might lead one to think the PBC is primarily for show.
Also, changing from a PBC to C-corp is easy and just involves amending the articles and a shareholders vote. So again, it matters who the shareholders are.
-
@mastodonmigration Still, this word salad does not work too much at this task.
I guess that difference between "investors" and "venture capital firms" is added for accounting & taxation purposes, may be there is some reduced taxation either for "investors" that are not VC, or for latter.I tend to read "Funding for operations" literally - someone gives Bluesky money to cover their expenses, without taking some stock or other BS as reward.
One day they will say: do X or we will stop funding. -
"literally - someone gives Bluesky money to cover their expenses, without taking some stock or other BS as reward."
Doesn't work that way. No one just provides money for nothing and stock and/or options or convertible debt are the mechanisms.
-
@mastodonmigration May be I was not correct with usage of legal terms, I just was trying to say that they gave investments without getting formal ownership (stocks). Basically, I don't care what it is - options, or "convertible debt".
Being able to demand "Do X or we will stop funding" is NOT "nothing" for me. -
Have you read this @davetroy piece?
https://america2.news/without-sky-social-media-and-the-end-of-reality/
He concludes with this:
“In summer 2023, Bluesky converted from a public benefit LLC to a public benefit C corporation, a for-profit entity with a standard corporate shareholder structure, and a stipulation that shareholders cannot sue the company for choosing to pursue its public benefit mission over profit.”
And two more points…
-
…which are:
“Delaware Public Benefit Corporations are required to distribute a report to shareholders about their progress towards its public benefit every two years, but are not required to make those reports public.”
“But there are really only two reasons for firms to invest in Bluesky: because they think they will profit, or to effect a set of geopolitical outcomes. Both of these paths are fraught with hazards.”
