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Dean Ober
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I’m new here. I’ve decided I don’t want to use this platform to get news. Don’t know if I want to discover new feeds, or curate my own through follows.
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I second Joe Cardillo and add that Moscow-based Kirill Dorofeev being a director of Blockchain Capital is a massive red flag. Dorofeev works for VK, the Russian state social network.
rajtham.bsky.social Raj Thamotheram @rajtham.bsky.social · Nov 16
An important word of caution about this site from one my contacts, Joe Cardillo (posted here with his permission).

His advice? Don't over focus on Bluesky, invest as much time/energy as you feel comfortable knowing you may have to move & what that would require.

www.linkedin.com/posts/joecar...
Many people are making the leap from Twitter/X to Bluesky – even though the design & experience are currently better, I won't be signing up... I worked in/around VC-backed startups for 10 years, mainly within two-sided marketplace platforms, but I certainly got a good look at how social media & big tech operate, including working for a founder who had previously scaled FB adtech There are two huge red flags with Bluesky: 1) They recently raised a venture round – modern venture capitalists invest for one of two reasons: either they want a big return ($15M > $150M considered acceptable, but $1.5B+ is the goal), or they want a place where they can influence/control larger narratives for their personal, political, or financial gain (e.g. Marc Andreessen and a16z investing in Clubhouse and then being featured as "top recommended accounts"). 2) The VCs in Bluesky have ties to far-right authoritarians and cryptocurrency influencers – two of the key investors, Bart and Brad Stephens of Blockchain Capital, co-founded their firm with Brock Pierce, who worked directly with Steve Bannon While Bluesky is built on a better concept – decentralized social media and open protocols – there is little reason to believe them when they say they are focused on how "technology should serve the user, not the reverse." Ultimately, all startups have to answer the question, "Who is your customer," and in this case, it's pretty clear that already powerful people in the cryptocurrency & VC are the main focus. No shade if you do use Bluesky, but I would recommend continuing to maintain other profiles and no over investing your time/energy, particularly if you are a news organization or content creator/influencer. #Bluesky #BigTech #SocialMedia #PlatformPower #Startups A screenshot of who Bluesky has raised start-up funding of $15 million from - "Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat of Darkmode, co-creator of Kubernetes Joe Beda, and others".
November 16, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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Good Morning!
How’s the air over here?
I just know where I’ve been is getting a little more putrid every day
November 15, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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“Go far enough on the inner journey — go past ego toward true self — and you end up not lost in narcissism but returning to the world, bearing more gracefully the responsibilities that come with being human.”

- Parker Palmer

#culturecare
November 14, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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“Our consciousness has been claimed by false fields of perception and idolatrous systems of language and rhetoric.”

Walter Brueggemann
November 11, 2023 at 7:35 PM
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utmost.org/classic/fait...

#faith #mufhh
October 30, 2023 at 2:48 PM