Mark Cuban has been one among Bluesky’s most vocal supporters in latest months. And now that the Supreme Court docket has upheld the TikTok ban, the billionaire entrepreneur is on the lookout for one thing new.
“I respect everybody reaching out to me to attempt to give you a TikTok various in case it closes,” Cuban posted on TikTok this week. “This is what I am open to contemplating. There’s an app known as Bluesky and it is constructed on a factor known as the AT Protocol through which you create your individual servers, create your individual apps, and all of it connects collectively to the 26 or 27 million Bluesky customers.”
Bluesky is constructed on the AT Protocol, an open, decentralized community for constructing apps. The X various, which started as an unbiased analysis mission inside then-Twitter in 2019, turned its personal firm in 2022. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was as soon as on the board.
Cuban stated if somebody can construct a TikTok various on the AT Protocol, they’d have an instantaneous investor—himself.
“I might be open to investing and supporting anybody who creates a TikTok alternative constructed on the AT Protocol,” Cuban continued. “So if in case you have that potential, let me know within the feedback.”
Cuban requested candidates to “create an MVP,” if doable, “a minimal viable product” in order that he has one thing to see earlier than investing.
“I feel you’d have an entire lot of help,” he added. “And, while you construct on the AT Protocol it is extensible, so which means no one can purchase it no one can simply shut it.”
TikTokers flooded the feedback able to tackle the duty.
“NASA software program engineer right here,” wrote on consumer. “If anybody needs to collab on this mission let me know!”
“I am a full-stack developer, I am prepared to work with different devs to get this performed!”
Based on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Mark Cuban is value simply shy of $8 billion.
