Why is the Knight Foundation investing in Bluesky? It’s the potential of the tech that powers it: AT Protocol.

“If we care about the First Amendment in practice, we must also care about the architecture that shapes and facilitates speech in our own era.

That’s why we believe ATproto was worth investing in.”

https://knightfoundation.org/articles/why-did-knight-foundation-invest-in-bluesky/

Why Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky - Knight Foundation

John Sands explains our bet on a social web that protects speech, creates opportunity for publishers and creators, and enables research on the information ecosystem.

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@wearenew_public why not fund the fediverse then?