Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on breaking free from Twitter and competing with Threads and Mastodon
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Bluesky started inside Twitter. Now, it’s competing with X, Mastodon, and Threads to push a decentralized vision for social networking.

Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Twitter, er, X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a project from then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who spent his days wandering the earth and saying things like Twitter should be a protocol and not a company. Bluesky was supposed to be that protocol, but Jack spun it out of Twitter in 2021, just before Elon Musk bought the company and renamed it X.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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      9 months ago

      The TOR network is indeed the most widely-used implementation of onion routing, but it isn’t the only example.

      My go-to reference is Retroshare, an open-source app that implements onion routing on top of an encrypted friend-to-friend network:

      http://retroshare.cc/

      You only connect to your trusted friends, but by passing messages along the Kevin Bacon chain it’s still possible to reach anyone on the network. Retroshare’s built-in services include email, instant messaging, traditional web forums, microblogging, and a Reddit-style karma-ranked forums/linkboards, and third party plugins include voice and video chat. It’s desktop-only, but I think it demonstrates that serverless social networks are possible.