Free Our Feeds Aims to Decentralize Social Media With—or Instead of—Bluesky
The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in ...
A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires
An initiative called Free Our Feeds, backed by the founder of Wikipedia, aims to protect the social media technology that ...
This Campaign Wants To Raise $4 Million To Make Social Media Immune To Billionaire Takeover
Free Our Feeds, which includes support from the Mozilla Foundation, is working with Bluesky to make sure the open source ...
A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
The campaign aims to raise $30 million to build an open-source social platform free from "billionaire control." ...
Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’
Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to “save social media from ...
Nothing but Bluesky? There’s still a way to go for the latest social media craze
Many businesses that use social media are adopting a wait-and-see approach regarding the new social media kid on the block, ...
Hollywood stars and top technologists want to billionaire-proof social media using Bluesky’s protocol
The likes of Mark Ruffalo and Jimmy Wales are backing the Free Our Feeds project, to ensure Bluesky's tech will thrive even ...
The push to ‘billionaire-proof’ social media
Since Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion and turned it into X, the biggest beneficiary of the ensuing exodus of mostly ...
Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent ...
‘Free Our Feeds’ campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky’s tech
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create ...
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Pro-Russian disinformation makes its Bluesky debut
The first symptoms of disinformation are emerging on the social media network Bluesky, with echoes of the pro-Russian ...
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Nothing but Bluesky? There’s still a way to go for the latest social media craze
Bluesky, the latest addition to the plethora of social media apps, has started with a bang. From its reported 26.3 million users as of early January, 11 million are said to have signed up since ...