Christine Lemmer-Webber
This happens despite the very best people with the very best intentions. Talk to early Twitter co-founders and they will tell you the org that things became was not the org that they envisioned.
A future adversary indeed. So we should plan for it today.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
The structure of an organization does matter. There's a reason that @spritely is a 501(c)(3) in the US. Any money we take in is a donation: we aren't "delivering on an investment" (though we must deliver on *results*)
Bluesky is a Public Benefit Corporation, also interesting
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Before we continue further, I have done about every job imaginable in a FOSS project/organization. Fundraising, by far, is the worst, and the most stressful.
It's incredibly hard to raise anything to do anything. I think that's worth acknowledging.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
What I will *not* accept is the goalposts being moved on decentralization and federation. Bluesky is neither decentralized nor federated.
If Bluesky wants to become so, it has an enormous amount of work to do, particularly in terms of architectural design.
Blogs are decentralized, Google is not.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
There will be a lot of pressure soon from investors: run ads, make premium accounts that do not actually make sense in a decentralized way, so on and so on.
In this way, "credible exit" is the most important thing for Bluesky the organization and its community to push on *today*
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Again, this is all tuned to "What is Bluesky trying to build?"
Bluesky might not be a good "decentralized Twitter replacement", but it is a good "Twitter replacement" with the possibility of "credible exit"
Christine Lemmer-Webber
That Bluesky is providing needs for many users who are looking for refuge from a white supremacist site *today* is something to pause and acknowledge the difficulty and scope of doing so quickly and in the moment. I'm glad Bluesky is here at this stressful geopolitical moment in history.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
A Public Benefit Corporation has a mission for the public good, but can take investments in the way a nonprofit cannot. This also means it can move much faster. Given the influx of users to Bluesky, taking investments this way may have been the only load handling route available this fast.
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