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Agreed about that they nailed the UX for BlueSky in terms of “best possible Twitterlike”.

That said, my biggest concern is how they plan to make money. With BlueSky being completely open at the moment, there is effectively no possible monetization strategy for them without making major breaking changes to the protocol.

For example, if they added ads to the app, someone could just write a client that didn’t have ads. Donations are another possibility, but probably wouldn’t be enough to pay for the servers.

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rsynnott 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Twitter had third party apps with no ads for over a decade without the sky falling. Few people use anything other than the default.

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infotainment 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Fair point! Ditto for Reddit, I suppose.

Though, wasn’t Twitter’s financial situation starting to become somewhat dire toward the end of its pre-Musk life?

	▲	rsynnott 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, define dire. It was not what you’d call the world’s most profitable company, and had negative income for two years, but it had been cash flow positive every year for years. Its valuation was… optimistic, but it’s not like it was going to collapse or anything.