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Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund Bluesky’s AT Protocol-based TikTok alternative. TikTok video published on Wednesday. On the eve of the future US TikTok banIt will pass if it doesn’t pass on Sunday It was stayed by the Supreme Courtusers flock to other video platforms, Including the Chinese app RedNote. But investors like Kuba see the potential for a more open social network that includes an ecosystem of apps powered by the same technology that powers the Bluesky social network today.
The AT Protocol is a newer, open protocol designed for decentralized social media applications. This is meant to address what some developers think some of them are shortcomings With the existing decentralized ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon and other social services. Although Bluesky is currently the flagship software of the AT Protocol, there is many other services now it is built with technology.
Consumer demand for open social apps also continues to grow rapidly, with Bluesky itself seeing a spike in new sign-ups following the US presidential election, growing the network to date. 27.6+ million usersup 10 million+ in September. Meanwhile, we reported on Wednesday An upcoming Bluesky client called Flashes will focus on images over text.
Cuban said he would like to see something that rivals TikTok but is based on the AT Protocol and bring it back.
In the video, he briefly describes how ATProto (as it’s called for short) allows people to create their own social networking servers and applications.
He then adds, “I would be open to investing in supporting anyone or anyone who builds a TikTok replacement based on the AT Protocol. So if you have this skill, let me know in the comments. If you build an MVP — a minimum viable product — I can see that, that’s even better, because obviously I think you’re going to have a lot of support,” Cuban says.
“And more importantly, when you build the AT Protocol, it’s extensible, so nobody can just buy it, nobody can just block it,” the investor notes, referring to the portability aspects of an open social network. .
That is, users who want to transfer their account to another server can do so without losing their followers, content and other data.
In part, Cuba’s interest in ATProto is not only to expand the open social network, but also to strengthen competition with Elon Musk’s Xi. Cuba has openly disputed. With Musk, X and elsewhere criticizes X’s approach to content moderation, misinformation, and more.
Kuba asked interested developers to respond in the comments of the TikTok post.
