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        "alt": "Graber also mentions Bluesky PBC making money by functioning as a marketplace. This is one of the core ideas on how she sees Bluesky PBC making money, and she has mentioned it interviews since at least early 2024. So far, Bluesky PBC has not actually build a marketplace yet. As the ecosystem develops, Bluesky PBC runs the risk of other organisations building marketplaces first. Custom feed builder Graze already contains a marketplace for ads. Graber’s example of people paying for access to Blacksky and Bluesky PBC taking a cut of the transaction seems to imply that other organisations will depend on Bluesky PBC for such a transaction.\n\nBut observing the actual behaviour of Blacksky Algorithms Inc, the company behind Blacksky, shows a different picture. Blacksky is building infrastructure to be fully independent from Bluesky PBC. The company already has their own PDS implementation, a grant to work on their own relay implementation, and announced a few months ago that their longer term plans are to also have their own frontend apps as well as their own AppView. Earlier this year, the Blacksky company transitioned away from being fiscally hosted by Open Source Collective to being an independent fiscal host, to save 10% in fiscal host fees, and Blacksky advertised the move as being fiscally independent. Together it paints a picture of Blacksky as a company that values their independence, both in technological as well as financial infrastructure, a company that will put in effort to avoid another organisation taking a cut of the transaction.\n\nWhile not every organisation and community on ATProto will have the same characteristics as Blacksky, it shows some of the limitation of Graber’s proposal. There is a financial incentive to avoid Bluesky PBC taking a cut of transactions, and Bluesky PBC has provided all the tools with the openness of ATProto to make it as easy as possible to do so. Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser responded to the quote by Graber with a simple “👀”.",
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  "text": "@laurenshof.online with grade A journalism as usual, even picking up my lil shade"
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