Free Our Feeds Aims to Decentralize Social Media With—or Instead of—Bluesky
The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in case it, too, comes under the control of a billionaire owner.
‘Free Our Feeds’ campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky’s tech
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company or billionaires,
A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires
An initiative called Free Our Feeds, backed by the founder of Wikipedia, aims to protect the social media technology that powers Bluesky.
A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
The campaign aims to raise $30 million to build an open-source social platform free from "billionaire control."
Hollywood stars and top technologists want to billionaire-proof social media using Bluesky’s protocol
The likes of Mark Ruffalo and Jimmy Wales are backing the Free Our Feeds project, to ensure Bluesky's tech will thrive even if the company goes bad.
Bluesky users launch campaign to stop billionaires taking over
For the blissfully unaware, Bluesky is an emerging decentralised social media platform similar to the set-up of X. Created by original
Project to 'free social media from billionaire control' plans to take on Musk and Zuck using Bluesky's open source protocol: 'It will take years and hundreds of millions of ...
A cadre of tech founders and activists announced a new social-media focused foundation on Monday with the goal of raising $30 ...
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Tech Leaders Launch ‘Free Our Feeds’ Campaign to Challenge Billionaire Control of Social Media
The campaign aims to use Bluesky's AT protocol to create a social media ecosystem comprising interconnected apps and ...
Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’
Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to “save social media from ...
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Philanthropists push to liberate Bluesky technology from Bluesky
"Free Our Feeds" would make sure the AT Protocol, the underlying framework of the Bluesky social network, remains open. This ...
This Campaign Wants To Raise $4 Million To Make Social Media Immune To Billionaire Takeover
Free Our Feeds, which includes support from the Mozilla Foundation, is working with Bluesky to make sure the open source ...
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Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky
In a challenge to billionaire-controlled social media platforms, a group of nine less affluent technology leaders have formed ...
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Free Our Feeds Initiative to Establish Bluesky's Public-Interest Foundation, Away From Billionaires
A global campaign aims to protect Bluesky's AT Protocol, creating billionaire-proof social platforms for a fair, open, and ...