Since my last podcast recording last week, as many of you know, I have started working with Michael J Burgess on Anonymous Airwaves, a new monthly podcast show on Circuitry Hub Insights Collective exploring digital freedom, decentralization, and self-sovereignty. Through deep dives into decentralized networks, privacy tech, self-hosted infrastructure, and censorship-resistant communication, we interview pioneers shaping the freedom tech ecosystem. NFT editions hosted on Zora offer exclusive content and community governance, embodying the decentralized principles we discuss.
Our first episode is an hour long click here
For most of the week after my discussion with Michael my co-host of Anonymous Airwave. I’ve been working around trying to create and engage with the new wave of social media in the forefront I’ve been testing the waters on Bluesky, What do I think about Bluesky as a platform? - The origins of Bluesky started around the Twitter ecosystem as many of you may not know the origins of AT protocol were supposed to be implemented on Twitter during that time around 2019; when Elon Musk came to the scene and purchased Twitter for 44 Billion dollars around 2022 - Now the website currently known as X.
Leaving Twitter has been the best thing for me to do, Mentality was draining, and the chaos around Twitter/X which for me, was a turning point I wanted to say “You know what? screw it! Time to get out of Twitter/X. I’m done! Most of the time when I got on X over the last few months, it was something I had a feeling I didn’t like the changes I am seeing not just the name change “From Twitter to X” - Twitter itself wasn’t feeling like an open platform anymore. When I first signed up on Twitter back in 2008 under a different username at the time, Twitter was just refreshing, and I was slowly moving away from Myspace during my late teens, You had many choices for social media back in 2000 Facebook & Twitter were growing up slowly and reign supreme - micro-blogging or a.k.a was a fresh concept of where you can reach out to your followers and you can create a form of short notes; those notes back then was called Tweets.
Nowadays you can no longer say that Facebook & X is an open platform. I left Facebook much earlier than I did Twitter, the first time I left Twitter was in 2021, and then in a short amount of time I decided to come back to the platform, I didn’t like Jack Dorsey on some of his censorship which back then the whole culture wars on Twitter was just boiling out during the U.S election in 2015 once I knew how Twitter was starting to become I didn’t like how things where develop then and I can’t say that everything under Dorsey was COMPLETELY HIS FAULT, not to that extent. I will say that the politics was very toxic and not something I did not enjoy. But look back on Twitter under Dorsey, in his defense; he wanted to make Twitter open-source back then Bluesky was part of Twitter in development then, When Elon Musk purchased Twitter and outscraped Bluesky - my point of view, Elon made one of the biggest mistakes he’s ever DONE! - Now that Musk continues to bring his companies down the ground (Both Tesla & X together!) X is not a good experience altogether!
Bluesky is now an independent company running under new leadership & CEO Jay Graber.
For anyone who doesn’t know who Jay Graber is at this point.
Lantian Graber was born in 1991 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a mother of Chinese descent, an acupuncturist by trade, and a mathematics teacher father of Swiss descent. Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, named her daughter Lantian (蓝天), meaning "Blue Sky" in Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom". The similarity between Graber's given name and Bluesky is purely coincidental; Jack Dorsey had chosen the name "Bluesky" for the research initiative before Graber became involved with the project.
Graber enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and later graduated with a BSc in Science, Technology, and Society. During her senior year, she won a grant to co-found a student time bank program.
The blue sky's current form is amazing! As much as I would like to create a YouTube video on the topic one day this week, I’ll have to sit and work on the subject when I have time. I do not have any complains or regret of deactivating my Twitter.
AT protocol which back in the day of Twitter anyone can create their APIs on Twitter just like what you see in the image above, back when I used TweetDeck I enjoyed the format! it is incredible what anyone can use on this open platform! If you are using platforms like Facebook & Twitter now, I ask anyone reading,… What are you doing?! Leave to experience this amazing opportunity and jump ship you do not have to stay bonded to X’s closed platform, if you are a developer, make the switch now! or if you are a content creator or influencer of any type! I will ensure this platform is not about division where you see so much conflict at each other’s throats.
After you do take time on Bluesky for a couple of weeks from now, it does start to grow on you for sure. I would ignore anyone that high and mighty who thinks they know it all, thinking this is a platform for far-left groups; you are wrong! Bluesky is forever one! 100% I do think that nowadays Everyone wants to start calling the other person names that they think they know something or about this person’s political belief right now off the bat - I say you know do not have to subscribe to anyone if you do not wish to.
Before I worked on this newsletter I came across Justin Jackson’s YouTube Channel about the same thought process that I was going through and I agree! I’ve been having one of the best experiences so far!
He’s outlined very well something I would check on this channel.
For anyone that Signed up on Bluesky, what do you guys think I like to hear from you?!
Leon LaGrey
