Posted on 04/28/2023 1:39:37 PM PDT by Round Earther
The buzzy new social media app of the moment looks so much like Twitter it’s almost hard to distinguish the two. The profiles, timelines and colors are nearly identical. Even the creator is the same.
But under the hood, Bluesky, developed by Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, is vastly different.
The app, which launched in a closed beta on iOS in February and on Android this month, runs on a decentralized network which provides users with more control over how the service is run, data is stored, and content is moderated.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Twitter is far too entrenched with hundreds of million users on a global level to be taken down by a start-up.
Wouldn’t Musk have made these guys sign non-compete agreements as part of his buy out?
That type of hubris can destroy. Companies come and go.
A forensic audit of the source code would probably show that much of it was lifted directly from Twitter e.g. stolen.
Good, maybe all the censorship nazis can stay over there.
I know Musk has moved resources to Texas though.
A forensic audit of the source code would probably show that much of it was lifted directly from Twitter e.g. stolen.
My first thought.
There have been free open source Twitter “clone” scripts out for a long time. So making a site just like Twitter has been easy to do for anyone who has web hosting. The difference here is he is apparently using P2P protocol so that it is decentralized. Looks like it will be supported by the member’s machines as both clients and server nodes. This is actually a good direction to move in our current internet environment. The security and privacy cannot be beat. I am currently working on a P2P system myself right now.
https://www.lifewire.com/p2p-networking-and-software-818019
More appropriately named “Redsky”. Or “Comrade Watching what you type-sky”
“Commie Connect”...?
“Commie 2 Commie”...?
“I can’t believe its not Censorship”...?
See #9
A forensic audit of the source code...
“Don’t forget that McDonald’s is nothing like McDowell’s. While McDonald’s has the golden arches, McDowell’s has the golden arcs. McDonald’s has the Big Mac, but McDowell’s has the Big Mick. They both have two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions. But McDonald’s buns have sesame seeds. McDowell’s buns have no seeds.”
“I can’t believe its not Censorship”...?
Be hard to censor. It will be like ZeroNet which by design is impossible to censor. It is all or none, like it or not. It will run in the deep web...
What is more bizarre is that Dorsey rolled over his ownership from public Twitter to Musk's private Twitter - so he still has a $1 billion position in the company he is cometiting against!
Guys Jack is the former CEO of Twitter. He wouldn’t have been writing the code, but if any of his employees at the NEW place were at the OLD one. THAT might be something, but this story talks about it being JACK’S company.
So, no non-competes, or stolen code for him.
Competition is good. Monopoly is bad, even when the monopolist is someone you like.
or borrowed from Mastodon
” ...Investigators said Atwell attempted to hide millions of dollars-worth of crypto he’d acquired from dark web drug sales, mostly via the Blue Sky market, claiming some of those proceeds were used to buy 30,000 ether, worth just $9,000 at the time of its purchase but now worth above $54 million. ...”
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