Mark Cuban has been one in every of Bluesky’s most vocal supporters in current months. And now that the Supreme Courtroom has upheld the TikTok ban, the billionaire entrepreneur is in search of one thing new.
“I admire everybody reaching out to me to attempt to give you a TikTok different in case it closes,” Cuban posted on TikTok this week. “Here is what I am open to contemplating. There’s an app referred to as Bluesky and it is constructed on a factor referred to as the AT Protocol by which you create your personal servers, create your personal 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 different, which started as an unbiased analysis challenge inside then-Twitter in 2019, grew to become its personal firm in 2022. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was as soon as on the board.
Cuban mentioned if somebody can construct a TikTok different on the AT Protocol, they might have a right away investor—himself.
“I’d be open to investing and supporting anybody who creates a TikTok alternative constructed on the AT Protocol,” Cuban continued. “So when you’ve got that means, let me know within the feedback.”
@mcuban Let me know within the feedback ! https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto. #savetiktok #tiktok## shout out to @Austin ♬ original sound – Mark Cuban
Cuban requested candidates to “create an MVP,” if attainable, “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 assist,” he added. “And, whenever you construct on the AT Protocol it is extensible, so which means no one should 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 person. “If anybody desires to collab on this challenge let me know!”
“I am a full-stack developer, I am keen to work with different devs to get this carried out!”
Based on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Mark Cuban is value simply shy of $8 billion.
