Post B4RULHlOM0pefe4ZZw by PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #B4RF61pbo9XtbPJPbE by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       BlueSky 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/
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RFKNtcZJZs5a2BPs by MatWright@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor you can't be a profitable investment without some sort of user exploitation - adverts, tracking, data miningBSky is just a Meta waiting game
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RULHlOM0pefe4ZZw by PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social
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       @dangillmor Yeah, that's a hard pass. 😬
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RVuH4n06ASd4OT7w by yiojoshua@mstdn.social
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       @dangillmor well they're a company they have customer relationship with customers not non plutonic relationships
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Rb1QKFVewd75qxdI by jwz@mastodon.social
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       @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
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RcOgwzxqmzI0dXua by jaypeach53@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor BSky is a closet fascist organization
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RfGXB4iRVOWc1Te4 by RunRichRun@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmorOf note —https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116260908095581163 via @_elena
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RfbsQ2w4aIUACc9w by clonedhuman@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor Whelp, Bluesky is about to go down the shitter then.The money bros destroy everything they touch.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RhbJc2XsSORXfkrA by Pettet8@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor no thanks too many algorithms.. I love Fediverse/Mastodon..
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RiRlveVkQVK5rKuu by swggrkllr3rd@mastodon.world
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       @dangillmor From the land we fled.  Twitter owned in part by russians oligarchs. https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oligarchs-mean-for-musk/a-70088598
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RqRFB352QzNYJtHU by TrimTab@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor"Moving from x to bluesky" = "Moving from this shitty tech bro to that shitty tech bro.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Rs1gsJg4L9f4V7Wy by zetabeta@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor i found this:https://www.blockchaincapital.com/i doesn't say percentages of those companies.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4RwDRm82lhS7cT5Jw by btaroli@federate.social
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       @dangillmor It’s the inevitability of things like this that makes the decision to stay away from corporate monoliths so much easier.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4S1NLeSAMZlnPQ10S by BurrLand01@mastodon.world
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       @dangillmor I'm missing something, I guess.I trust BlueSky to the same extent that I trust my landline. It is a medium of communication.So I know that's not your point.I'm often considered elderly, possibly because of age.What am I missing?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4S2tUxPCeylsUB4QS by stux@mstdn.social
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       @dangillmor Luckily crypto has always proven to be trustful and not scammy at all!😆
       
 (DIR) Post #B4SBtmwrDBZdGQ8OCO by soapdog@toot.cafe
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       @dangillmor sounds iffy as fuck to raise that amount of money and be quiet.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4SD0ZCuna0qd0RQDg by femme_mal@mstdn.social
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       @dangillmor What's frustrating is that all the signs were there *long before* this slip.Bluesky isn't a nonprofit, it's a PBC — a public benefit corporation — and the intended benefits to the public aren't wholly transparent.It had at least two rounds of financing between Feb 2023 and Nov 2024 from venture capital firms. This was financing, not donations or contributions — it must be returned with interest or ownership, and it's not been clear which.And now Masnick is compromised by this.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4SYf2I6BSkdRy0KR6 by wimvdputte@vivaldi.net
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       @dangillmor - thank you for the info. Was not aware. Cancelled my account.It's the lack of transparency that boddered me the most. Not trustworthy anymore when they act like that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4SvF180BO7bGBqNv6 by timswan@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor Bluesky is just the next Twitter and they’ll end up being owned by an Oligarch.