Campaign Aims to Decouple Social Media from Billionaires

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Campaign Aims to Decouple Social Media from Billionaires
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Free Our Feeds, a campaign backed by tech advocates and celebrities, seeks to raise $30 million to create a publicly-owned social media ecosystem based on Bluesky's AT Protocol. The initiative aims to ensure user data and content accessibility regardless of future company decisions, emphasizing the importance of decentralized social infrastructure.

Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to “save social media from billionaire capture.” The project aims to raise $30 million over three years to support the development of a social media ecosystem powered by the AT Protocol, or the decentralized network powering Bluesky .

Yet as it stands, it is still venture-capital backed,” Sherif Elsayed-Ali, the executive director at the Future of Technology Institute, said in a statement. “This important initiative aims to safeguard Bluesky’s underlying technology and put it on an independent pathway, so that the future of social media can be freed from the whims of any one company or group of billionaires.

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