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> The web. Email. RSS feeds. XMPP chats. What all these technologies had in common is they allowed people to freely interact and create content, without a single intermediary.

> Sign up for the Bluesky private beta.

Welp this just seems counterintuitive.



Nothing seems counterintuitive to me about kicking off an open product by first doing a limited private beta.


All of those listed technologies got cancelled, shut down, or deprioritized due to rampant spam.


when? where? I still use xmpp and email, albeit less of RSS.




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