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@davetroy@toad.social
1/There is nothing more embarrassing than watching hordes of liberals willingly herd themselves into a pen funded by Russian capital. Blue skys principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russias state social network.
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Autumn
(46,321 posts)luvallpeeps
(1,124 posts)milestogo
(17,822 posts)Heron5
(88 posts)Thats from his Twin Peaks period. We peakers would recognize those drapes anywhere. There are 9 Kirill Dorofeevs on LinkedIn and only one uses this MacLachlan image and when I checked minutes ago his bio said: Senior Product Analyst Google Greater Linköping Metropolitan Area.
Id like more information.
BootinUp
(49,023 posts)if anything he can add to support his contention that Blockchain Capital LLC is managed by this guy. Maybe someone is purposefully hiding their info now that it has been shared around. I do not know.
BootinUp
(49,023 posts)milestogo
(17,822 posts)Kyle was a very good looking young man and a decent actor.
BootinUp
(49,023 posts)luvallpeeps
(1,124 posts)stopdiggin
(12,828 posts)there's quite a bit of reporting going on about the site right now -
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/what-is-bluesky-everything-to-know-about-the-x-competitor/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/12/us-election-bluesky-users-flee-x-twitter-trump-musk
BootinUp
(49,023 posts)Dennis Donovan
(25,619 posts)It's a for-profit, public benefit corporation. More from Wikipedia:
On July 5, 2023, Bluesky Social announced it had raised $8 million in a seed funding round. The seed round was led by Neo, a firm with partners like Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi and former Twitter PM Suzanne Xie, and included other investors such as Joe Beda (co-creator of Kubernetes), Bob Young of Red Hat, Amjad Masad of Replit, Amir Shevat, Heather Meeker, Jeromy Johnson, and Automattic. Bluesky Social plans to use the funds to grow its team, manage operations, pay for infrastructure costs, and build out the AT Protocol technology that it runs on.
Prior to the seed round, Bluesky Social's website described the company as a public benefit LLC owned by Graber and other Bluesky Social employees. Post-seed round, the company describes itself as a public-benefit C corporation. The company has not publicly disclosed its charter. On May 4, 2024, Jack Dorsey, Bluesky Social funder and initiator, announced on X that he was no longer on Bluesky Social's board, and Bluesky Social confirmed his departure without disclosing the reasons.
BootinUp
(49,023 posts)BootinUp
(49,023 posts)MineralMan
(147,578 posts)I was wondering who was behind BlueSky. So, maybe people are jumping out of the frying pan, only to get barbequed.
I always wonder who owns social media venues. It always seems to be some unsavory sort of character, doesn't it?
BootinUp
(49,023 posts)Money jumping in on a new investment round. The point is that these large tech organizations are just not reliable as far as any kind of mission statements. People backing them want a return on their investment.
Mosby
(17,469 posts)Like Curaleaf. 152 dispensaries, owned by a Russian oligarch.
Riddle me this. Why is pot more expensive now that it's legal?
Its because Big Pot wrote the legislation, created barriers to entry, agreed to extreme taxation and they all conspire to maintain certain price points.
mzmolly
(51,617 posts)and some of those investors are Russian? I don't care. I like Bluesky and plan to stick around as long as they're not openly supporting white supremacy and fascism like the alternative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky#Bluesky_Social
https://bsky.social/about/faq
Thanks for sharing.