Will Elon Musk keep funding Twitter’s most interesting side project?
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#658H2)
Project Bluesky
Elon Musk finally owns Twitter now. While Twitter's users are still parsing what that means for them, we've got a general idea: laxer content moderation, fewer people keeping the lights on, and maybe the eventual addition of everything app" features like payments and reservations for services. But the standard Twitter app isn't the only platform whose future Musk now controls. Over the past three years, Twitter Inc. has also been funding a decentralized social networking project called Bluesky - and it finally seems close to bearing fruit. But under Twitter's new leadership, with its original champions gone, its future prospects seem shaky.
Bluesky was launched under Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's leadership back in 2019, and its...