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Bluesky's Decentralized Social Network Model Scales to Millions Without Marketing Budget

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benwerd

9mo ago· 15 min readenInsight

Summary

The article explores Bluesky's evolution from being perceived as just another Twitter clone to becoming a groundbreaking decentralized social network. It highlights how Bluesky, as a public benefit corporation, has successfully scaled an open-source social network to tens of millions of users without spending money on marketing. The piece focuses on Blacksky as a case study demonstrating the potential of decentralized infrastructure and how this model represents the next evolution of social media platforms.

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this is the first time ever that a public benefit corporation with a small team has quickly scaled an open source social network, built on top of decentralized infrastructure, to tens of millions of users
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
nothing illustrates the potential of this model better than Blacksky, created by Rudy Fraser and his team
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How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

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