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Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (12 children)

She's right, but centralized services like BlueSky won't be it.

Social networks don't need servers playing middlemen, friend-to-friend networks with onion routing to pass messages to friends-of-friends would more accurately reflect the structure of real-world social networks.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are social networks and social media the same thing?

[–] guts@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Social media provides the tools and platforms for social networking to take place, but social networking is the actual practice of using those tools to connect with others.

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