[Kate Knibbs at WIRED]

This is an insightful interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber. The headline here overreaches quite a bit, and needlessly describes what Bluesky is doing in monopolistic terms; I left excited about what's next for the open social web, which I've believed for some time is the most exciting thing happening on the internet.

A pluralistic social web based on open protocols rather than monopolistic ownership is obviously beneficial for democracy and user experience. There are serious benefits for developers, too:

"There was recently the Atmosphere Conference, and we met a lot of folks there building apps we didn’t know about. There are private messengers, new moderation tools. The benefit to developers of an open ecosystem is that you don’t have to start from zero each time. You have 34.6 million users to tap into."

And that number, by the way, is growing incredibly quickly. Make no mistake: across protocols and platforms, this mindset is the way all future social applications, and one day all web applications, will be written and distributed.

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