Re: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 5:41 PM Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Does anybody have any idea what Bluesky’s business model is intended to
> be? “It’s all free” for consumer software has historically not lead to good
> places.
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> I’m always very queasy when I don’t understand a company’s business model
> up-front, even if it is a public benefit corp.
>

Agreed! They haven't announced anything, but they've hinted at running some
of the options for global services, eg search, moderation, feed ranking,
etc, and charging for those. Fortunately they're a small team, and have
much of their initial $13M left in the bank, so they have time.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture
https://snarfed.org/bluesky-corporate-ownership-and-structure#revenue



> (Arguably this is off-topic for this list, as might be Bluesky in general)
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> Cheers,
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> Johannes.
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> Johannes Ernst
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