Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

Bluesky is a refreshing addition to social media. Many users say it reminds them of “old twitter”. I didn’t use twitter so Im not sure what that means. But compared with other social medias? No ads. Auth using your domain. Choose your own timeline algo. Its amazing!

I am worried about the commercial aspects though. I am willing to pay them a subscription if they just ignore ads altogether. The fact that all of it is oss (the protocol, and the implementation!) does give me hope that they won’t turn into an ad infected slop.

What is the business model, anyway?

They’ve promised no ads. They’ve also said they may roll out premium subscriptions which would give you stuff like “upload longer videos.”

Other than that, yet to be determined. But it’s clearly some form of a platform play. Lots of options.

Promises can be broken. When they run out of VC money, We will see how they will keep it profitable.