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#FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

We are determined to free social media from billionaire control

Social media once promised to be a global public square, connecting communities and sparking creativity. Yet it is now under the control of a few billionaires, used to advance their own political and business objectives.

Building on the foundation built by the BlueSky team, we are launching project to create a new future for social media, that gives power and choice back to people.

Free Our Feeds will establish a new, independent foundation to secure the future of social media with independent infrastructure and an ecosystem of innovation and applications on top of open technology.

The funds will be used to:

  • Launch a public interest foundation that will work to support making Bluesky’s underlying tech (the AT Protocol) fully resistant to billionaire capture;
  • Build independently hosted infrastructure (a second ‘relay’) so that Bluesky users, developers and researchers always have full access to the stream of content and data no matter what the company decides to do in future;
  • Our bigger fundraising goal, of $30m in 3 years, will enable us to further develop the AT Protocol and create a fund for developers so they can build a wealth of social applications on top of open protocols to make social media a healthier and happier place.
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