He shared that entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol. TikTok video Posted on Wednesday. Expected to come. US TikTok banIf it doesn't pass on Sunday The Supreme Court stopped it.Users fled to other video platforms; Including the Chinese app RedNote. But investors like Cuba see the potential for a more open social web that includes an ecosystem of apps powered by the same technology that powers Bluesky's social network today.
Hi AT Protocol newer ones designed for decentralized social media applications; It is an open protocol. It's meant to address what some developers think. defects With ActivityPub, an existing decentralized protocol used by Mastodon and other social services. Although Bluesky is AT Protocol's flagship app at the moment, Many other services Now it is being built with technology.
User demand for open social applications is also in full swing after the US presidential elections, and Bluesky itself has been growing the network since the US presidential elections. 27.6+ million usersup from 10 million+ in September. Meanwhile, a news broke on Wednesday. A Bluesky client called Flashes arrives. This allows you to focus on images rather than text.
Cuban said he would like to see something built on top of the AT Protocol, even though it's a competitor to TikTok.
The video briefly describes how ATProto (for short) lets people create their own social networking servers and apps.
He then added, “I'd be open to sponsoring anyone or investing in a TikTok alternative built on the AT Protocol. So if you have the talent, let me know in the comments. If you have an MVP—at least a viable product—so I can see that, that's even better, because I think you'll have a lot of support,” Cuban said.
“More importantly, when you build the AT Protocol, it means it's extensible, so nobody can buy it, nobody can shut it down,” notes the investor. Citing the account portability aspects of building for the open social web .
That is, Users who want to move their account to another server, their followers, This can be done without losing content and other data.
in part Cuba's interest in ATProto is not only about expanding the open social web, but also about fueling competition with Elon Musk's X. Cuban argued openly. X's content moderation approach with Musk at X and elsewhere; He criticizes misinformation., versus More.
Cuban asked interested developers to respond in the comments of the TikTok post.