I think the opportunity is huge, that a new social media without the current flaws will emerge is inevitable and this is could be part of the implementation solution but sure no real universal success. Think it probably needs to come outside of the us to have any credibility.

Bluesky is not huge, but 40M users is not nothing either. You don't get people to want this, you just try to build better products. The hope is that this enables us all to build better products by making them more interoperable by default. Whether this pans out remains to be seen.

I think most people do want this. They want to own their data. If you ask someone if they post on IG, if they should own that, or IG, they'll tell you it's them.

The hard problem IMO is how do you incentivize companies from adopting this since walled gardens helps reduce competition.

“You know how much it sucked when Elon bought Twitter and it became a cesspool? Wouldn’t it have been great if you could easily take your entire post history to some other platform?”