Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/mark-cuban-is-ready-to-fund-a-tiktok-alternative-built-on-blueskys-at-protocol/

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airportline@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Obligatory: billionaires will not save us.

takeda@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Interesting that they are trying to use Bluesky to make it look like "this is now safe, because it is decentralized" when in reality BlueSky still has a centralized control and there's nothing stopping it to go the way Twitter did.

We already have PixelFed and loops.video

airportline@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y

What happens to my account if my PixelFed instance shuts down abruptly? Do I have to DM all my followers to follow my new account? Or is this already a solved problem with ActivityPub?

davel@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

just one more oligarch bro i swear bro just one more oligarch will fix it

theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

(would never have used it anyway though)