Bluesky, the social media platform that has recently enjoyed a huge influx of leftists fleeing X/Twitter, is designed to be “billionaire proof,” according to CEO Jay Graber.
In a recent interview with CNBC’s Money Movers, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the platform’s rapid growth and its unique features that set it apart from competitors like Elon Musk’s X and Meta’s Threads. Graber emphasized that Bluesky’s open design is intended to give users the option of leaving the service with all of their followers, which could thwart potential acquisition efforts.
“The billionaire proof is in the way everything is designed, and so if someone bought or if the Bluesky company went down, everything is open source,” Graber explained. “What happened to Twitter couldn’t happen to us in the same ways, because you would always have the option to immediately move…