Make Identity Central Again, with Bluesky’s Jay Graber

There's a reason journalist and Bluesky board member Mike Masnick calls the platform "the most interesting experiment going in social media." Originally launched as a project within Twitter in 2019, Bluesky has since become an independent company intent on making social more like the web.

What does that mean, exactly, and why does it matter? Bluesky founder and CEO Jay Graber says social media is stagnating because "we're in this trap where users are locked in and developers are locked out." It's time to open things up again, she states, like in the early days of the internet.

These days, the clarion call is to free our social identities from large "walled gardens" and leverage open source software for a healthier internet. In this podcast episode, Jay articulates an exciting future and shows how Bluesky is well positioned to lead by example.

Highlights of this conversation:

• Genesis of Bluesky
• How Elon and other developments impacted Bluesky's trajectory
• What's exciting about developer activity on Bluesky
• How the social web will evolve
• Innovating on social identity and benefits of an open social graph
• How can all these worlds/protocols come together

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