US EditionHollywood stars and technologists propose using Bluesky's protocol to enhance social media platforms
- A campaign called Free Our Feeds aims to raise $4 million to support Bluesky's mission of decentralizing social media and creating an independent foundation.
- The initiative is backed by organizations like the Better Information Project and the Social Web Foundation, and aims to raise a total of $30 million over three years.
- The campaign seeks to ensure that the AT Protocol remains open and independent, even if Bluesky falls under corporate control.
- Notable supporters of the campaign include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and actor Mark Ruffalo, who signed an open letter endorsing the project.
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A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and X owner Elon Musk Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images. Allison Robbert-Pool/Getty Images.Tech leaders, including an early Facebook investor, launch a $30M campaign for independent social media.Free Our Feeds aims to counter billionaire control with the open-source AT Protocol.The campaign is led by executives from Mozilla, Social Web Foundation, and other tech nonprofits.Days after Meta announced contr…
Philanthropists push to liberate Bluesky technology from Bluesky
The logo of social media platform Bluesky. (Graphic by The Desk) A consortium of philanthropists, tech moguls and celebrities have launched a new organization that seeks to liberate the foundational technology that powers the social media website Bluesky from that company itself. The organization, called Free Our Feeds, is backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Mozilla executives Nabiha Syed and Mark Surman, Hollywood actor and director Alex W…
A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky’s underlying tech
As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires. The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single person or company, includi…
A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's underlying tech
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company or billionaires, including Bluesky itself.
Celebs and tech luminaries including Mark Ruffalo want to create a fully open social media ecosystem
A cadre of celebrities and former Twitter users are trying to create a vast social network that is freed from profit motive. This would take the form of various apps on top of Bluesky’s pre-existing protocol.
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