Mark Cuban has been certainly one of Bluesky’s most vocal supporters in latest months. And now that the Supreme Courtroom has upheld the TikTok ban, the billionaire entrepreneur is on the lookout for one thing new.
“I admire 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 known as Bluesky and it is constructed on a factor known as the AT Protocol wherein 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 various, which started as an unbiased analysis venture 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 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 substitute constructed on the AT Protocol,” Cuban continued. “So you probably have that potential, 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 attainable, “a minimal viable product” in order that he has one thing to see earlier than investing.
“I believe you’d have an entire lot of assist,” he added. “And, while you construct on the AT Protocol it is extensible, so which means no person should buy it no person 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 venture let me know!”
“I am a full-stack developer, I am prepared to work with different devs to get this achieved!”
In line with Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Mark Cuban is value simply shy of $8 billion.