Regular reminder that Bluesky is a VC-funded company which inevitably is headed for the same fate shared by all VC-funded companies. It must maintain hypergrowth until it either:

Uncool mouse

@bnewbold @yosh also I have yet to hear a single credible reason from Bsky's devs for why they had to come up with a brand new standard when one that was already an existing one that was mature, pretty flexible, and was backed by W3C.

bryan newbold

@anvit @yosh what are your goal posts and criteria?

I think atproto is much more than an API. you don't need to talk to any single server. each network service is replaceable and has "exit". sure, not like mastodon.

"why not ActivityPub" is a big topic and hard to boil down, they are very different systems. the shortest answer I have is that AP is very web 2.0 ecosystem and tech, while AT is developed by folks coming from P2P and content addressed ecosystem (SSB, dat, bittorrent, git).

Riley S. Faelan

@yosh Er, in commercial theory, 'debt' and 'stock' are very different kinds of beasts.

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@bnewbold @yosh

bryan, basically you said nothing here. How do your bosses pay your salary once the $8M runs out? It's a simple question.

Trying other "models". What does that mean? Who is the customer? Where does the revenue come from?

bryan newbold

@mastodonmigration @yosh we announced we are working on a couple revenue models recently:

we already sell domain names. this is a multi-billion dollar commodity market with great margins.

we are going to do paid subscriptions, where users pay us directly. some just want to support us. can also redistribute to other projects in the ecosystem. similar to discord nitro. "aesthetic flair", not pay-for-ranking.

longer term, we are interested in facilitating payments, like ko-fi/patreon

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@bnewbold @yosh

Sure bryan, that's exactly what your investors are thinking of as long term ways to monetize the platform. ‍️

bryan newbold

@mastodonmigration @yosh what are your assumptions? for the record

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@bnewbold @yosh

You seem like a nice guy, and you probably believe what you are posting. But what you will learn in due course, if you stay in the tech industry, is that money does not work the way you think. Your bosses are lying to you. And if they are not, they are deluded too. When the inevitable parting of ways between the idealistic entrepreneurs and their benevolent benefactor (sarcasm intended) venture capitalists arrives, the money wins. Every time.