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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
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#22Huh, I guess betting on Mastodon winning was the right bet.
Mastodon already won, by being used by people. Bluesky also won, by also being used by people. Not sure if this is a "winner takes it all" scenario? As long as you can host it yourself, I don't really mind where people are, both seem to work and have "won" for what they set out to do.
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#23Sounds like a firing / soft firing / come to jesus moment about the viability of the business...
Pretty much. It's fun seeing idealists get slapped by reality. If you want to protect your ideals you better know how to fight for them using the same tactics as your competitors. Learning how to build a board that is in your favor, making alliances with less than pure players if needed, and being ruthlessly competitive allows an ideal to become reality.
What's fun about it?
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#24I was enjoying having one social network not run by horrid people. Maybe it's time to go back to IRC or something.
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#25Translation: VCs and the board pushed Jay out.
The interim CEO doesn't even use Bluesky himself, so at this point you might as well move to Threads.
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#26Just to say the obvious: the new CEO is a VC partner and former CEO of Automattic. That seems very bad, no matter how "committed" they are to the vision of Bluesky.
Apologies, I'm probably under a rock, but why is that bad? I see they're behind WordPress but am not sure what the 1:1 is. The WP Engine stuff?
There was some WP drama between Automattic and the WP community a while back.
Also the whole point of Bluesky is that they aren't supposed to be a big evil silicon valley tech company. But now you have a silicon-valley VC running the thing.
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#27Wait Bluesky had a CEO? I thought it was some type of organic open source collective.
They constantly say they are a Public benefit corporation but there is no actual difference between that an a corporation. This leads to people assuming some kind of benevolence.
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#28> and proved that a values-driven social network could thrive at scale. How could a social network, or anything humans create, not be values-driven?
Seriously? If a company is publicly traded, they're legally required to prioritize shareholder value, unless they're a benefit corp or something with multiple bottom lines. I suppose you could call it values-driven to drive up the bottom line, but that's not normally what people mean.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's only meant to be filling in temporarily per the Wired article, but we'll see.
Fair enough, I've never been involved in a CEO recruitment, I can't imagine the candidate pool tends to include people like the previous CEO of Bluesky
It's not that unusual to have an interim CEO hold the reins (read: sign anything that needs the CEO's signature) while a permanent one is found.
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#30> and proved that a values-driven social network could thrive at scale. How could a social network, or anything humans create, not be values-driven?
I suppose in the same way that all eating is health and nutrition driven. Good or bad.