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Microsoft, apple, google, meta, amazon, tencent what was preventing them to buy twitter?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Twitter was developing the at protocol and bluesky, think they always saw it eventually dying and had bluesky as their backup

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Bluesky was an EEE operation. Meant to kill federation by capturing users then forcing an instance monopoly. That's why it is federated on paper only. In practice no engineering was done to make it actually federated at all. Now they're far behind the Activity pub and mastodon, and the rest of the fediverse despite having much more investment.