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Bluesky's at Protocol: Pros and Cons for Developers


Should developers build on Bluesky's AT Protocol? It has a compelling identity and content architecture, but decentralization is a grey area.

It’s now an independent company, led by CEO Jay Graber, which just had a $15 million series A funding round(the lead investor is a blockchain VC, which raised concerns among some in the decentralized web community). It now has 13 million users and has tempted some big names from the tech community to migrate from X — notably for TNS readers, Kubernetes A-lister Kelsey Hightower. However, the corporate control issue presents a big risk to developers, especially given the track record of web startups over the past couple of decades.

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