Free Our Feeds

Nostr is much better protocol for this despite the bitcoin slant. That being said, i only follow non-bitcoin cultists (except some nostr devs that are also bitcoiners) and the sheer variety and different use cases of the apps being made,that are actually up and running and working, is crazy. And every time someone comes up with a new app idea/client, i just go there and immediately use it with my same identity with one click. Also Nostr is not vc backed and many unrelated devs work based on their own ambitions mostly from donations and funding from https://opensats.org/. Free Our Feeds, with much less money, could create a set of standard redundant general public relays that are not commonly added by all the bitcoiners to grow a userbase with unslanted eclectic content. For onboarding they shoudl create as service that combines creating a new account with assigning a domain-based handle and acting as an "nsecbunker" / event signer. This service has normal password and stuff that can be reset and stores the unchangeable public/private keys (also acts as a signer for events). To the user, the onboarding is just like email services: Pick a nostr name account host: you make an account with a name and password, then on each app you type in your handle and it directs to the nsecbunker software running on that provider that asks for your current password. If that service shuts down it's as easy as finng another oine and putting in your private key and your same identity keeps moving on, albeit your "handle" would be different. For smarter/technical users, they can just use an nsecbunker url or a signer extension. Honestly, a signer extensions (or app like amber) are like the best user experience but getting people to set up the app with a private key isn't a good experience yet.

It makes no sense for "Free our feeds" to work with Bluesky.

Bluesky has accepted investor money at a $700m valuation. This means they promised investors access to users' data and shoving tons of add into their feeds.

Neither is in "the people's interest" which is what "Free our feeds" wants.

For the same reason Bluesky won't decentralize their network: It would tank their valuation.

For now, we only have Mastodon.

We need more instances so people have lots of choices if they don't like their current instance's politics.

Personally, i feel there should be less censorship between nodes.

I'd take this more seriously if the call to action was to support Mastodon. I understand Mastodon has its problems. I also understand that at-proto might, in some hypothetical future, not be reliant on a single entity to run and manage. But, warts and all, Mastodon is already free from the kind of centralized control that is decried in the linked article, while Bluesky is not.

I’m all for another team trying to build out another relay and prove atproto has the decentralized “juice”.

Might be more convinced to donate if there was a white paper with more details on the roadmap the funds will help drive.

Philosophy is pretty well explained here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/01/13/bluesky...

From the guys at Mozilla Foundation, who made a $25 million margin in 2023 (!), have $118 millions in assets, invested $35 millions in AI bullshit, but still fired 30% of the Foundation workers in 2024. And now they want more money to decentralize a private company, while Mastodon, a non-profit initiative only has $0.5 millions in funding a year. Is this a joke?

Mozilla could easily give $5 millions a year to various Fediverse projects, greatly improving things, on a project that is already decentralized today.

Related article:

https://www.usermag.co/p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-bac...

I didn't know that Jack Dorsey wasn't a billionaire...