Bluesky, Free Our Feeds

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 case it, too, comes under the control of a billionaire owner.
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 billionaire capture.” The project aims to raise $30 million over three years to support the development of a social media ecosystem powered by the AT Protocol, or the decentralized network powering Bluesky.
‘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 an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company or billionaires,
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 social media landscape is robust — even if it means more competition for Bluesky itself.
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 powers Bluesky.
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 left-leaning users has been Meta. Its rival offering, Threads, has attracted some 300 million users, far outpacing alternatives such as Bluesky and Mastodon.
Free Our Feeds Initiative to Establish Bluesky's Public-Interest Foundation, Away From Billionaires
A global campaign aims to protect Bluesky's AT Protocol, creating billionaire-proof social platforms for a fair, open, and decentralized digital future.
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 if the company goes bad.
A new campaign aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky’s underlying tech
As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg continue to reshape the social media space, a group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and influence of billionaires.
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 ...
Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of ...
A cadre of tech founders and activists announced a new social-media focused foundation on Monday with the goal of raising $30 ...
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Philanthropists push to liberate Bluesky technology from Bluesky
"Free Our Feeds" would make sure the AT Protocol, the underlying framework of the Bluesky social network, remains open. This ...
How Jay Graber Is Making Sure Bluesky Never Turns Into Elon Musk’s X
Since Elon Musk torpedoed Twitter, Bluesky has seen a stunning surge. CEO Jay Graber is working on “billionaire-proofing” ...