Bluesky: today's best social network (a history)

Let's explore the history of today's social media darling: Bluesky. It's time to uncover the unpredictable stories of three very important people and how they directly influenced the present day world of social media. Decentralized tech is complicated, and it's been a growing ethical and technical goal since the invention of the internet.

CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
2:31 - Part One: Scuttlebutt & Dominic Tarr
7:50 - Part Two: Beaker & Paul Frazee
13:24 - Part Three: Bluesky & Jay Graber
26:48 - Conclusion

SOURCES

[dominictarrsailing]

Paul unfortunately did not come sailing on my boat, but we did both go sailing one time out of Oakland, on another p2p friend's boat!
btw it's not really important but the boat in the sailing footage at the start is one I didn't own until after I had retired from SSB.

[Steven-rmy]

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[Joih]

Great content, want to see a better picture and heard a better sound though

[PhoebeBegnoche]

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[brandonkowalski]

Hey Julian, nice work. I appreciate the historical context of the journey of Bluesky. However, what is bluesky's monetization strategy? If they allow ALL speech, they will come under fire from the same activists that look to police free speech online. Orgs like Media Matters will surely care about the information that the platform is spreading just like they do on other platforms. Does bluesky argue that the "decentralization" of the users protects them from this because their servers don't hold the info? 

Let's say that their monetization model follows ad revenue just like every other platform. If they have to follow the "rules" of speech police organizations then they will have to restrict speech that conforms to the guidelines from their advertisers. It doesn't seem to fix that issue. Subscriptions to get rid of ads? Still need the ads to begin with.

Like I said, I really like the video though!