The decentralized social network hints at sustainability with talk of subscriptions
Bluesky says it has hauled in more than 13 million users, up from about three million when it opened to the public in February 2024.
in September, X now appears to be removing more content than Twitter did under its prior leadership. However, there'sSan Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source, developed under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium . ActivityPub, the basis of what's known as the Fediverse, is used by the decentralized Mastodon social network and by Meta's Threads, among others.
Henrique S. Xavier, a data scientist with the Brazilian Network Information Center , the non-profit administering the .br domain, publishedin August that examines the Fediverse's decentralization aspirations and found that the Fediverse on its own is unlikely to overthrow the dominance of a handful of tech platforms .
The Fediverse, he contends, needs to attract support from institutions, to have some means to coordinate large-actions, to deal with power imbalances, and to make evidence-based decisions that support the community. That may require legislation to limit for-profit social media platforms, funding, and – dare we say – the centralized guidance and evangelism of a benevolent, accountable non-profit organization.
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