Its a little older but bsky.social/about/blog/7...

Our Plan for a Sustainably Open Social Network - Bluesky

We've been exploring avenues of monetization other than traditional advertising, and have raised a seed round to support our mission and growth.

Oh neat

I was wondering what the idea was behind having the "bsky.social" bit on every username by default. Seems like a neat idea.

Oeh Neonabby, I was wondering about this! Great article!

Oh this is cool.

technically speaking domain names are anything but decentralized and are kind of a roundabout way of kyc i mean the process literally just funnels money into a handful of domain name registrars

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this sounds interesting but is not enough to keep the lights on. I would be totally fine with adsthis sounds interesting but is not enough to keep the lights on. I would be totally fine with ads

Thanks for finding this.

This is really interesting, but probably not sufficient to maintain upkeep of the company especially as it continues to grow. It runs into the issue of most websites needing some form of consistent ad revenue/ subscription model/ product sold in order to keep on the lights which sucks, but idk.

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