Mark Cuban has been 1 of Bluesky's astir vocal supporters successful caller months. And now that the Supreme Court has upheld the TikTok ban, the billionaire entrepreneur is looking for thing new.
"I admit everyone reaching retired to maine to effort to travel up pinch a TikTok replacement successful lawsuit it closes," Cuban posted connected TikTok this week. "Here's what I'm unfastened to considering. There's an app called Bluesky and it's built connected a point called the AT Protocol successful which you create your ain servers, create your ain apps, and it each connects together to the 26 aliases 27 cardinal Bluesky users."
Bluesky is built connected the AT Protocol, an open, decentralized web for building apps. The X alternative, which began arsenic an independent investigation task wrong then-Twitter successful 2019, became its ain institution successful 2022. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was erstwhile connected the board.
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Cuban said if personification tin build a TikTok replacement connected the AT Protocol, they would person an contiguous investor—himself.
"I would beryllium unfastened to investing and supporting anyone who creates a TikTok replacement built connected the AT Protocol," Cuban continued. "So if you person that ability, fto maine cognize successful the comments."
@mcuban Let maine cognize successful the comments ! https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto. #savetiktok #tiktok## outcry retired to @Austin ♬ original sound - Mark Cuban
Cuban asked willing candidates to "create an MVP," if possible, "a minimum viable product" truthful that he has thing to spot earlier investing.
"I deliberation you'd person a full batch of support," he added. "And, erstwhile you build connected the AT Protocol it's extensible, truthful that intends cipher tin bargain it cipher tin conscionable adjacent it."
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TikTokers flooded the comments fresh to return connected the task.
"NASA package technologist here," wrote connected user. "If anyone wants to collab connected this task fto maine know!"
"I'm a full-stack developer, I'm consenting to activity pinch different devs to get this done!"
According to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, Mark Cuban is worthy conscionable awkward of $8 billion.