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Ah, could be interesting. I know Bluesky is planning having subscriptions, too. So we'll see if they include having no ads in there for people who don't want to see said ads.

I've got 20 years of experience in designing business models + looking at them from a systems thinking and human psychology/sociology lens. Ads by default with a premium opt out route is still, in every possible way, an advertising based business model. This topples democracies.

I would be the first in line to sign up for a subscription for Bluesky and would pay twice the amount I would to a third party *if they kept their promise* And the first to quit and be very vocal about why the moment they introduced ads.

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I don't have an issue with *publications* having sponsors or advertisements. Platforms have much too much power for that ever not to be a fundamental poisoning of the well. And Bluesky is still a platform until it has at least *one* independent sustainable alternative on the same protocol.

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I see. Is my pinned post an ad? Why, a bluesky dev, thinks so.

20 May 2025

Just seeing this now. Doesn't really matter one way or another because you're not trying to run a global communications network as the sole operator at the moment and I'm not against ads. It's only when your scope of influence is "everyone" that this stuff starts to matter.

20 May 2025

This is about how Bluesky makes money, and only is relevant until atproto has at least two other alternative providers for microblogging with self-sustaining business models and comparable network effects. It's not about customer UX but about global scale governance...