Dan GillmorBlueSky wants you to trust them, but they raised $100 million from a crypto fund almost a YEAR AGO and didn't tell anyone.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/
jwz@dangillmor I don't see how "they secretly took $100M from crypto grifters 12 months ago" is any more damning than "they publicly took $14M from crypto grifters 17 months ago" but if it gets a new batch of people to realize that they have been telling you who they are and you should believe them, I'll take it. https://jwz.org/b/ykbY
Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters
My "we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt. No not that crypto-grifter. These are different crypto-grifters: We're excited to announce that we've raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital [...] This does not change the fact that the Bluesky ...
Eugene@jwz @dangillmor I know its really besides the point but I can't get over the preview image for this looking like bitcoin goatse.
EDIT: Clicking on the link and scrolling down to the comment section at least gave me confirmation that others interpreted the image that way lol
Jon PENNYCOOK@FamiliarAlien @jwz @dangillmor One of the "previously"s could be a clue https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/04/signal-hops-on-the-dunning-krugerrand-bandwagon/
Signal hops on the Dunning-Krugerrand bandwagon
Not only is Signal a sketchy-as-fuck privacy-violating social network wearing "security" cosplay, now it also has a climate-incinerating Ponzi scheme bundled in. Cool, cool. Stephen Diehl: Do they think we don't see through the thinly veiled pump and dump scheme that's proposed? It's an old scam with a new face. Allegedly the controlling entity prints 250 million units of some artificially ...