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 respect everybody reaching out to me to attempt to provide you with 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 referred to as Bluesky and it is constructed on a factor referred to 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 impartial analysis challenge 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 might have a direct investor—himself.
“I’d 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 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 ♬ unique sound – Mark Cuban
Cuban requested candidates to “create an MVP,” if potential, “a minimal viable product” in order that he has one thing to see earlier than investing.
“I feel you’d have a complete lot of assist,” he added. “And, while you construct on the AT Protocol it is extensible, so which means no person should purchase it no person 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 challenge let me know!”
“I am a full-stack developer, I am keen to work with different devs to get this achieved!”
In response to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Mark Cuban is value simply shy of $8 billion.