Stefan Bohacek
DouweBlacksky business model: "I don't like VC, VC don't like me. we gonna hustle."
Rudy Fraser - Blacksky
Interesting insight from Bluesky's COO.
"$100 million is a 3-year runway."
"Fediverse has completely 'radicalized' me in four years. [...] The more I learn about the culture of the fediverse, the more empowered I feel."
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/live/3
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/strength-through-diversity-1
"It has become much easier to make a new social app. That also opens the possibility to make new business models possible. Subscription, affiliate etc. etc. They can be sustainable.
Ads in curated feeds are not the only way."
"Our business model will be maybe similar like Automattic from Wordpress. We need to be good in connecting creators and consumers and get a (tiny) piece of the revenue"
Rose Wang - COO Bluesky
"We live in the medieval times of the net. Most of us are peasants living on the land of others who can take everything away from us in a whim"
Rose Wang - COO Bluesky
"Next to that we are looking in commercially hosting mastodon instances for institutions
Lastly we get grants for development from governmental bodies.
But we are firm that there are certain business models we really exclude.
"I order to become financially stable we are looking into donations. That aligns best with our grassroots background."
"We don't want to replicate the US model. We need to get an EU model for social media"
"Flashes was possible to make because of Bluesky. But I didn't want to be dependent on US infrastructure. We need to have a basic infrastructure to build these apps, but then in Europe. That became #eurosky"