#freeourfeeds — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freeourfeeds, aggregated by home.social.
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"We’re excited to share that we've fulfilled the #FreeOurFeeds commitment to launch a #publicinterest tech foundation. The #ModalFoundation is a new nonprofit dedicated to making #opensocial tech viable at scale. Modal works to support decentralized tech that helps people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information.
The foundation oversees the Free Our Feeds Campaign, #Eurosky and more initiatives to come." -
Did anyone attend #Eurosky's live conference on 19 Nov. in Berlin and can report about the state of play of that project?
Is there a schedule for when something will go online? What are the next steps? etc.
#Indiesky #FreeOurFeeds #Bluesky #DigitalCommons #SocialMedia #Atmosphere #Fediverse #ATProto #BigTech #digitalsovereignity #digital #eusummit25
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@anca @bsky.brid.gy I do hope they are seeing some of those #FreeOurFeeds funds!
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@neuSoM @informatik @Karlitschek @nextcloud @zendis @alexandrageese @unipotsdam @spaetz
Fehlt hier #freeOurFeeds? Eine Rednerin zumindest ist ja Verfechterin dieser Art der Souveränität.
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Also interesting to catch up on #FreeOurFeeds. Remember them?
"Free Our Feeds wants to raise $30 million over three years, and has an immediate goal of $4 million to hire a small team and build independent infrastructure."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/free-our-feeds-campaign-aims-to-billionaire-proof-blueskys-tech/
They're at $211,030 right now.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-free-social-media-from-billionaires
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@ayrtonfreeman @uira @nlpretto @skarnio @vektra @robin @r_evangelista @valessio
Vejo da mesma forma.
Com esse desenho (intervenção inicial na camada zero), vale dialogar com a turma do #FreeOurFeeds, que busca descentralizar o #ATProto.
No Fediverso, vemos um papel para instituições na retomada da soberania digital (universidades, institutos de pesquisa, museus, sindicatos, etc.). Já viram o "Move Slowly & Build Bridges"? É por aí..
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@skarnio @nlpretto @vektra @ayrtonfreeman
Quem me deu o toque sobre esta possibilidade de conexão do #PIX no nível do protocolo foi o @robin, que integra o #FreeOurFeeds. Por isso, acho que seria estratégico que alguém do governo brasileiro acompanhasse as discussões técnicas neste nível. Por vários motivos, o #ATproto estaria mais próximo deste "experimento estratégico". Posso estar enganado… -
How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech:
Middleware, an idea whose time has come.
Now in @francis.fukuyama's Persuasion - by @Noupside and me. #FreeOurFeeds
https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-to-reclaim-social-media-from
#FreeOurFeedsThe conclusion and some key ideas in this thread on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@rreisman.nyc/post/DLndYhzvjmi
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Just created a @surf.social Tech News feed, Surf is so cool! #SurfFeeds #FreeOurFeeds #TechNews
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wuojeafwvlqn7devygjbcdjk/post/3lqfcmjwejv2q -
Pretty wild line-up right now with @markruffalo.bsky.social, @rosie.com, @alexwinter.com, and @johncusack.bsky.social raising funds for #FreeOurFeeds as @ianbrucestudio.bsky.social paints. Ruffalo: "Hey billionaires out there, fucking step up!" www.youtube.com/live/uogmc-c...
We Need To Talk About Elon (wi... -
Interesting to look back at this five months later ... here's what's currently happening today in terms of decentralization the ATmosphere.
@rudyfraser.com announced today that Blacksy feeds and moderation service are now powered by our own atproto relay -- and it's an independent implementation, not using Bluesky's reference code. It's really worth reading the thread, which has a great analogy for how a relay enables custom feeds.
@edavis.dev has configured deer.social (a third-party app) to to point to a self-hosted bsky appview which reads from a self-hosted relay which subscribes to a self-hosted PDS which is where this -- as he says, "Bluesky independent from Bluesky".
@bnewbold published A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month, updating his post from last summer. The network size has increased by close to an order of magnitude since his first post; the cost of a realy
#FreeOurFeeds is donating a $50K to the AT Community Fund to support the #IndieSky working group. The notes from last week's Ahoy IndieSky Europe give a sense of the energy here -- and also link to a bunch of other projects that sure look decentralized to me and discusses the prospects of Eurosky.
Of course, like I said in the article,
""Decentralization" means different things to different people. As the links in the Appendix highlight, people who are focusing on the (very real) concentration of power in the ATmosphere today, or the potentially-centralizing architecture of AT, find it more useful to describe Bluesky as centralized."
And the power concentration -- or "operational centralization" as Bluesky folks were calling it at the ATmosphere Conference -- is still very real. Bluesky still runs almost all of the infrastructure for the ATmosphere, and it's by far the most popular app, and most other apps (as well as Bluesky) use the Bluesky AppView, Relay, and labeler.
Then again, that's clearly in the process of changing, and it'll be interesting to see how it looks six months or a year from now.
@laurenshof @fediversereport @cyrus @cwebber @rysiek @jonny @possibledog @oblomov @rwg @Kye
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What does this mean? Can everybody now run their own #ATproto infrastructure like people run fedi servers now and be just as independent and what then would be the advantages of one over the other? Is the new goal of #FreeOurFeeds just to make sure their network becomes at least as decentralized as ours is? Why give #bluesky any more VC money? #SocialWeb
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3lo7ced2mes2d -
I invited them to bridge but my understanding is that progress towards lots of alternative relays so that the network is not reliant on BS has not been good. #FreeOurFeeds estimated it would take million$ to do well and hoped to raise a couple by now, but is only at about $100k.
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totally. that's why I push hard for AP not AT. assuming this ever really works (#FreeOurFeeds seems dead), the option of an indy relay isn't enough if most people don't use it. see what BS did in Turkiye without ever releasing a public statement about it vs what @mondoweiss is already doing. having exits is not enough. using them will still force a cost most users won't accept. running your own social media server/relay must be as normal as your own web site.
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The #FreeOurFeeds folks are awfully quiet about #censorship in Türkiye
Not that their account isnt actively posting over on bs…
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I've heard of blacksky but I wasn't aware they had a relay. all the other stuff seems to be happening. I wonder how that works.
The alternative relay project #FreeOurFeeds seems to have stalled with $100k of a hoped for couple million by now.
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AFAICT #FreeOurFeeds has stalled. Eight weeks ago, they were hoping to go from "nearing $100k" to $4m by this week. Their website says they are now at $101,155. #SocialWeb
Let's please reconvene all the people supporting this mission and try something else. Maybe what I posted here:
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Is there a way to see how much #FreeOurFeeds has raised?
Isn't the better solution to normalize everybody on #bluesky bridging to #ActivityPub, so that if they start to "go evil", folks can move here and tell everybody there that they did so and to join them?
If most are not bridged as is the case today, moving here means losing lots of connections. Most will resist doing that until it gets truly desperate. But if most are bridged, the cost is negligible. And this will keep BS cool. #SocialWeb
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Yeah. It'll be interesting to see if #FreeOurFeeds incorporates the feedback.
Although, one of the biggest things people were giving #FreeOurFeeds a hard time about was their out-of-touch focus on relays and lack of awareness that they're fairly cheap and becoming cheaper ... a perspective that's very common (and equally out-of-touch) here in fedi as well. And, we've also got boondoggles here, just with somewhat-lower stakes (hundreds of thousands instead of the millions). So, there's a lot of learning for fedi from this session as well, and it'll be just as interesting to see whether the feedback gets incorporated.
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Absolutely loved Dan's clear concise summary of the #FreeOurFeeds technical plan. If anyone was worried that this multi-million dollar boondoggle is a hopeless hairball, feel like those concerns are set straight.
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The energy at #ATmosphereConf was indeed very positive and optimistic, and there were some great talks and discussion sessions. Dan's got a great summary of @kissane's talk; @rudyfraser.com's talk starting at 1:34:30 in the Sunday livestream is great as well.
And as for the #FreeOurFeeds session Dan describes so vividly ... the session I suggested that hile I very much agree with their goal of European data soverignty and it's great to hear his perspectives that funders are willing to invest in it, the initial focus on a relay - or slightly-broader focus on a relay and PDS - isn't going to get them there, they really need to take a system view. The response was something along the lines of "let me turn it around and ask what you think are the key aspects from the system view." Wait a second, I'm not the one who's trying to raise $30 million here! Oh well, they once again got a lot of feedback, let's see if they incorporate it.
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@pfrazee.com @mmccue.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social
my hope for the #SocialWeb is to do for attention what the web did for expression. public control. I can't see how that happens with a central relay, ads and corporate algo. I love that you're helping people leave worse places but I can't say I'll be happy till there's nobody between govts and journos and the people. at least. like email and the web. the threat of exit ala #FreeOurFeeds is not enough.
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Bluesky: finally, social media that's billionaire-proof! Also Bluesky: throws SXSW party with billionaire's "Project Liberty" 🤔 Yes, this is the same Project LIberty whose #FreeOurFeeds first partner with their blockchain-based Frequency infrastructure. And ...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/post/3ljl4ly43js2e -
Just found out about #FreeOurFeeds, a campaign aiming to "free social media from billionaire control". Signed by... millionaires?
https://freeourfeeds.com -
Checking in on #FreeOurFeeds... Ouch - only 93k raised since January with a 4 million dollar goal 😬
Guess we're not having our feeds freed any time soon 🙄
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"So, while #FreeOurFeeds seeks money for their unclear goals (as critics have argued), another organization that has actually achieved tangible things—#IFTAS—is folding for lack of funding.
Is This a #StandardsWar?
…the facts are that there are major organizational, cultural, and technical distinctions between these protocols and there are only so many resources to go around."
#ActivityPub #atproto
@rwg
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/05/standardsWar.html -
#AI #Blockchain #Dorsey #Mozilla #Musk #SocialWebFoundation #VentureCapital and #NoBusinessCase
#FreeOurFeeds füllt mit einer Pressemitteilungen mein Digital-Bullshit-Bingo schneller als Heise in einer Woche.
Schon allein, dass man 30 Millionen Dollar mininum braucht, um einen zweiten (!) Bluesky-Relay zu betreiben, klingt für jeden der tausenden meist spendenfinanzierten Mastodon-Admins wahnwitzig.
Wie so ein Kuckuck legt #Bluesky dem #Fediverse sein Ei ins Nest. 🪺
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So so true! #FreeOurFeeds but not based on bsky!
Listen here:
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes: Late Night Linux – Episode 318Episode webpage: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-318/
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/latenightlinux/LNL318.mp3
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So so true! #FreeOurFeeds but not based on bsky!
Listen here:
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes: Late Night Linux – Episode 318Episode webpage: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-318/
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/latenightlinux/LNL318.mp3
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So so true! #FreeOurFeeds but not based on bsky!
Listen here:
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes: Late Night Linux – Episode 318Episode webpage: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-318/
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/latenightlinux/LNL318.mp3
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So so true! #FreeOurFeeds but not based on bsky!
Listen here:
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes: Late Night Linux – Episode 318Episode webpage: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-318/
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/latenightlinux/LNL318.mp3
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Remember folks, you must give Meta/Facebook/Threads every benefit of the doubt.
Invite them to partner with you at the Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org) as you courageously fight to #FreeOurFeeds¹
Federate with them on mastodon.social. Because why not build an adjoining door to a Nazi bar?
You must do all this and more to ensure you legitimise them at every turn. After all, you wouldn’t want to prove Mark Zuckerberg wrong about you or anything, would you?²
¹ https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/13/free-our-feeds-and-algorithmic-pluralism/
² https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook
#MarkZuckerberg #Meta #Facebook #Threads #mastodon #fediverse #SocialWebFoundation #FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism #fascism #dumbFucks
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Ayer por el #telediario de #rtve1 me entero del proyecto freeourfeeds.com.
Recaudar por crowdfunding y donar 30 millones de dólares al desarrollo del protocolo AT de bluesky. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Está promocionado por el creador de la Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales (jimmywales.com),
Mark Ruffalo (bsky.app/profile/markruffalo.bsky.social ) ,
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) y otros.En vez de donar dicho dinero al soporte del #protocolo #activitypub y #mastodon. Que son un protocolo y aplicación descentralizada y de codigo fuente abierto.
AT es de codigo abierto pero no es descentralizado. Bluesky opera con servidores bajo el control único de bluesky. No lo digo yo:
Ricos pidiendo dinero a los pobres para dárselo a otra compañia rica. Otra vez. ¿Qué puede salir mal?
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Yesterday on the #news on #rtve1 I found out about the #freeourfeeds project.
Raise and donate by crowdfunding $30 million to the development of bluesky's AT protocol. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Mark Ruffalo, Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) and others promote it.
Instead of donating this money to the support of the #protocolo #activitypub and #mastodon. This are a really decentralized, open-source protocol and application.
AT is open source but is not decentralized. Bluesky operates servers under bluesky's sole control. Idont say it:
Rich people asking for money from the poor to give it to another rich company. Once again. What can go wrong?
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Ayer por el #telediario de #rtve1 me entero del proyecto freeourfeeds.com.
Recaudar por crowdfunding y donar 30 millones de dólares al desarrollo del protocolo AT de bluesky. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Está promocionado por el creador de la Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales (jimmywales.com),
Mark Ruffalo (bsky.app/profile/markruffalo.bsky.social ) ,
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) y otros.En vez de donar dicho dinero al soporte del #protocolo #activitypub y #mastodon. Que son un protocolo y aplicación descentralizada y de codigo fuente abierto.
AT es de codigo abierto pero no es descentralizado. Bluesky opera con servidores bajo el control único de bluesky. No lo digo yo:
Ricos pidiendo dinero a los pobres para dárselo a otra compañia rica. Otra vez. ¿Qué puede salir mal?
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Yesterday on the #news on #rtve1 I found out about the #freeourfeeds project.
Raise and donate by crowdfunding $30 million to the development of bluesky's AT protocol. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Mark Ruffalo, Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) and others promote it.
Instead of donating this money to the support of the #protocolo #activitypub and #mastodon. This are a really decentralized, open-source protocol and application.
AT is open source but is not decentralized. Bluesky operates servers under bluesky's sole control. Idont say it:
Rich people asking for money from the poor to give it to another rich company. Once again. What can go wrong?
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Ayer por el #telediario de #rtve1 me entero del proyecto freeourfeeds.com.
Recaudar por crowdfunding y donar 30 millones de dólares al desarrollo del protocolo AT de bluesky. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Está promocionado por el creador de la Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales (jimmywales.com),
Mark Ruffalo (bsky.app/profile/markruffalo.bsky.social ) ,
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) y otros.En vez de donar dicho dinero al soporte del #protocolo #activitypub y #mastodon. Que son un protocolo y aplicación descentralizada y de codigo fuente abierto.
AT es de codigo abierto pero no es descentralizado. Bluesky opera con servidores bajo el control único de bluesky. No lo digo yo:
Ricos pidiendo dinero a los pobres para dárselo a otra compañia rica. Otra vez. ¿Qué puede salir mal?
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Yesterday on the #news on #rtve1 I found out about the #freeourfeeds project.
Raise and donate by crowdfunding $30 million to the development of bluesky's AT protocol. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Mark Ruffalo, Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) and others promote it.
Instead of donating this money to the support of the #protocolo #activitypub and #mastodon. This are a really decentralized, open-source protocol and application.
AT is open source but is not decentralized. Bluesky operates servers under bluesky's sole control. Idont say it:
Rich people asking for money from the poor to give it to another rich company. Once again. What can go wrong?
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Ayer por el #telediario de #rtve1 me entero del proyecto freeourfeeds.com.
Recaudar por crowdfunding y donar 30 millones de dólares al desarrollo del protocolo AT de bluesky. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Está promocionado por el creador de la Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales (jimmywales.com),
Mark Ruffalo (bsky.app/profile/markruffalo.bsky.social ) ,
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) y otros.En vez de donar dicho dinero al soporte del #protocolo #activitypub y #mastodon. Que son un protocolo y aplicación descentralizada y de codigo fuente abierto.
AT es de codigo abierto pero no es descentralizado. Bluesky opera con servidores bajo el control único de bluesky. No lo digo yo:
Ricos pidiendo dinero a los pobres para dárselo a otra compañia rica. Otra vez. ¿Qué puede salir mal?
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Yesterday on the #news on #rtve1 I found out about the #freeourfeeds project.
Raise and donate by crowdfunding $30 million to the development of bluesky's AT protocol. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Mark Ruffalo, Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) and others promote it.
Instead of donating this money to the support of the #protocolo #activitypub and #mastodon. This are a really decentralized, open-source protocol and application.
AT is open source but is not decentralized. Bluesky operates servers under bluesky's sole control. Idont say it:
Rich people asking for money from the poor to give it to another rich company. Once again. What can go wrong?
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Ayer por el #telediario de #rtve1 me entero del proyecto freeourfeeds.com.
Recaudar por crowdfunding y donar 30 millones de dólares al desarrollo del protocolo AT de bluesky. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Está promocionado por el creador de la Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales (jimmywales.com),
Mark Ruffalo (bsky.app/profile/markruffalo.bsky.social ) ,
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) y otros.En vez de donar dicho dinero al soporte del #protocolo #activitypub y #mastodon. Que son un protocolo y aplicación descentralizada y de codigo fuente abierto.
AT es de codigo abierto pero no es descentralizado. Bluesky opera con servidores bajo el control único de bluesky. No lo digo yo:
Ricos pidiendo dinero a los pobres para dárselo a otra compañia rica. Otra vez. ¿Qué puede salir mal?
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Yesterday on the #news on #rtve1 I found out about the #freeourfeeds project.
Raise and donate by crowdfunding $30 million to the development of bluesky's AT protocol. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales , Mark Ruffalo, Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) and others promote it.
Instead of donating this money to the support of the #protocolo #activitypub and #mastodon. This are a really decentralized, open-source protocol and application.
AT is open source but is not decentralized. Bluesky operates servers under bluesky's sole control. Idont say it:
Rich people asking for money from the poor to give it to another rich company. Once again. What can go wrong?
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Cory Doctorow has his name on this Free-our-feeds thing, and says a tiny bit more about it here:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/
Describes it as installing fire-exits into Bluesky but that's about all the detail we get.
So still dunno how these millions of dollars are going to do that. Is it just run a second index by a different multimillionaire enterprise?
Develop another bridge?
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Maybe he thinks having two multimillionaire enterprises running bluesky protocol is fire-exit enough?
You can have an account with Frying-pan OR with Fire! Nice. There's fire-exits now.
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#FreeOurFeeds hat irgendwie so #AllesDichtMachen-Vibes mit den Tech-Promis gegen den 'Mainstream'.
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Jimmy Wales, Mark Ruffalo, and others launch Free Our Feeds to raise $30M by 2028, aiming to "billionaire-proof" AT Protocol and simplify user migration from Bluesky. #FreeOurFeeds #Bluesky #ATProtocol #Decentralization #SocialMediaRevolution #TechNews #Crypto
