Free Our Feeds

"With Zuckerberg going full Musk last week, we can no longer let billionaires control our digital public square... it will take independent funding and governance to turn ... AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app... an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps and different companies that have people’s interests at heart. Free Our Feeds will build a new, independent foundation to help make that happen".

• raising 30m over 3years for a new foundation, independent from Bluesky, to be launched end 2025
• to build independent infra, eg a 2nd relay
• and fund developers

See also:

• Free Our Feeds and Algorithmic Pluralism: by one of the custodians - the exec director of the Social Web Foundation, which "focuses on the network of platforms connected via ActivityPub... This campaign is an opportunity to develop the capacity needed for ... ActivityPub & AT Protocol to better interoperate. Some proposed outcomes of #FreeOurFeeds are Independent implementations of relays, bridges and native protocol interoperability; Standardizing and testing intermediary functions like user authentication services; Personalising and streamlining data transfer and backups across all services."
• Billionaire-proofing the internet by Cory Doctorow: "if a body independent of the Bluesky corporation implements its federation services, then we ensure that its fire exits are beyond the control of its VCs"