Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twitter
I think there are two interesting sides to this here: First is that essentially a key part of this strategy is ideological, not pragmatic. Centralization came out of pragmatism, not ideology. It seems hard for me to believe that deliberately choosing the less efficient solution is a good idea for a start up.<p>The second is that we seem to be seeing a lot of VC brain here. By that I mean, I can scream at a VC &quot;OMG THERE&#x27;S A TRUCK COMING AT YOU AT 100MPH&quot; and the VC will respond &quot;Well what we need to do is look at how the concept of a truck is cha-&quot; before becoming a fine pink  mist. I&#x27;m not impressed by people who can&#x27;t answer basic questions about their product. I know Jack will hate to actually address this, but: how do you balance speech, censorship and moderation? I get we can wax lyrical about freedom of speech, but how are you actually going to address thousands of people shouting the N word at your users? And if your answer is &quot;It&#x27;s decentralized, it&#x27;s down to X,Y,X people&quot; then I have to point out, you&#x27;ve just outsourced the most difficult differentiator of a social media startup.