In an interview on the StrictlyVC Download podcast, billionaire Frank McCourt shared his vision for transforming social media. By the potential sale footgear.

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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    26 days ago

    That would make more sense. These are all incomprehensible sums of money to me anyways.

    But after a second read it kind of sounds like he’s trying to “invent” the fediverse,

    The proposed system would work similarly to email, where users can communicate across different service providers. In this vision, social media users could maintain their connections and content regardless of which platform they choose to use.

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      26 days ago

      Exactly. That’s what I think too. I also was thinking why is this guy not just using Fediverse. Hopefully that guy discovers it soon, because I’m not against super rich people to invest into this system.

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        26 days ago

        his ‘project liberty’ has its own protocol, dsnp (decentralized social networking protocol).

        does anything even use it?