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Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT protocol, he shared A TikTok video Posted on Wednesday. Looking forward to coming TikTok is banned in the USWhich should go through Sunday if not Break by the Supreme CourtUsers are fleeing to other video platforms, Including Chinese app RedNote. But investors like Cuba see the potential for a more open social web that includes an ecosystem of apps powered by the same technology that underpins Bluesky’s social network today.
D AT protocol A new, open protocol designed for decentralized social media applications. This is to illustrate what some of the developers thought Errors Including the existing decentralized protocol ActivityPub, which is used by Mastodon and other social services. Although Bluesky is currently the protocol’s flagship app, there are Many other services Now being built with technology.
Consumer demand for the open social app is also in full swing, with Bluesky itself seeing a wave of new signups in the wake of the US presidential election, with the network growing ever since. 27.6+ million usersfrom 10 million+ in September. Meanwhile, we break the news on Wednesday Coming Bluesky client called Flashes That will focus the image over the text.
Cuban says he’d like to see — and back — something that rivals TikTok but is built on the AT protocol.
In the video, he briefly describes how ATProto (which is abbreviated) allows people to build their own social networking servers and apps.
Then, he added, “I would be open to investing in supporting anyone — or anyone who builds a TikTok replacement built on the AT protocol. So let me know in the comments if you have that capability. If you build an MVP — a minimum viable product — so I can see it, that’s even better, because obviously, I think you’ll have full support,” Cuban says.
“And more importantly, when you build the AT protocol, it’s extensible, meaning nobody can buy it, nobody can stop it,” the investor notes, citing the portability aspects of building accounts for the open social web.
That is, users who want to move their account to another server can do so without losing their followers, content and other data.
In part, Cuban’s interest in ATProto is not only about expanding the open social web, but also about fueling competition with Elon Musk’s X. Cuban has publicly disputed In X and elsewhere with the mask, the content criticizes X’s approach to moderation, misinformation, And more.
Cuban asked interested developers to respond to comments on TikTok posts.
