You only see value in things that are monetized, don't you? Community has no meaning for you unless you can make money from it in some way...
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GET. HIS. ASS. MARTHA.
aug 29, 2025, 3:26 pm • 8 0 • view
get him again for me Martha!!
aug 29, 2025, 3:11 pm • 10 0 • view
Take his shoes Martha
aug 29, 2025, 1:02 pm • 53 1 • view
With all due respect Martha , if you want the community to survive , how will they pay their bills ? How will employees be paid a living wage ? What about their healthcare ? How is bluesky going to survive ?
aug 29, 2025, 5:32 pm • 13 1 • view
all signs point to some kind of advertising after being bought by an investor or having the users donate another option is the individual custom PDSs charging a fee while bsky itself dies out
aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I've belonged to forums for years that cost nothing... how do they survive?
aug 29, 2025, 5:42 pm • 127 1 • view
They get users to donate, generally. Heck, BlueSky was floating that until Why and Team decided to side with Jesse Singal over the trans cluster (who, for the record for late comers: built this site, not the liberals that came posts invite). Mark would know if he used the site during invite-only...
aug 29, 2025, 5:52 pm • 21 1 • view
At one time I'd estimate about a third of my followers/followees were LGBTQ, or perhaps I should say lgbTq. As you say, when it was invite-only. I don't know why they followed me; I followed them for the conversations, not their sexual identity.
aug 30, 2025, 9:48 am • 2 0 • view
We either buy the product or we are the product.
aug 30, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
If you can't answer that question then you can't use is as a crutch for your argument against another forum.
aug 29, 2025, 9:01 pm • 1 0 • view
There's a big difference between "surviving" and "thriving"!
aug 29, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Give them $20 million dollars or shush it
aug 29, 2025, 6:44 pm • 4 0 • view
>Sitting on a throne made of gold trying to block out the glare of it's reflection on the his phone screen "How can small websites survive independently AND pay their employees. It's unthinkable and there's just simply no other way"
aug 29, 2025, 5:49 pm • 14 1 • view
Well, I've got a business pitch for you, and I'll make you a deal that if it works out I'll pay for Bluesky myself just because I like it and want it to keep existing.
aug 29, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
man you're incredibly fucking stupid eh. how does anyone have a shred of respect for you lol
aug 29, 2025, 9:59 pm • 2 0 • view
well first, we tax billionaires out of existence… so, jot that down.
aug 29, 2025, 6:28 pm • 8 0 • view
Uh oh Captain Avarice is triggered
aug 29, 2025, 6:05 pm • 7 0 • view
Buddy we all here would probably pay monthly just to watch Martha dunk on you like Jordan playing 1-on-1 against Larry Storch from F Troop
aug 29, 2025, 6:12 pm • 30 1 • view
🤣🤣🤣
aug 29, 2025, 6:14 pm • 15 0 • view
Gettim Martha!
aug 29, 2025, 8:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Do you think that the owners need to get paid 4 million fucking dollars? How will the farmers market survive? They’re not trying to be Walmart that’s how.
aug 29, 2025, 8:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Millions of dollars and you gettin’ dogwalked by the octagenarian and your best comeback is “How are bluesky’s finances doing?” Like anyone should care for her having the answer to that? Bro she’s kindly calling you a friendless ghoul and you are just proving her right again and again
aug 29, 2025, 6:12 pm • 26 1 • view
He's projecting. Which is typical for his kind
aug 29, 2025, 6:17 pm • 7 0 • view
I don’t own any shares in bluesky and I’m not employed by them, so why should i write a business plan for them? You’re not making any sense.
aug 29, 2025, 6:54 pm • 3 0 • view
It’ll probably move into profitability by eliminating waste, such as unnecessary whitespaces inserted before commas and question marks in user posts.
aug 29, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
i guess it’s up to how decentralized the platform intends to remain
aug 29, 2025, 5:55 pm • 16 0 • view
Didn't someone from bsky say last year that they were looking into non-essential "premium features" for a few bucks a month? I'd be fine with that.
aug 29, 2025, 5:57 pm • 8 0 • view
yeah & it would be fully voluntary just as using the bsky.social instance is while also still giving the user ownership over their content and domain etc if i’m remembering correctly
aug 29, 2025, 6:55 pm • 6 0 • view
Yeah, I'd be down with that. A cost analysis of bsky for me shows that I get a lot of entertainment/value for no money. So I'd be fine with pitching in a few bucks a month. It'd still be a good deal for me since I'm here a lot.
aug 29, 2025, 7:00 pm • 5 0 • view
Man you fucking suck. Whole hood is off these days cause of taxes. Fuck off man
aug 30, 2025, 1:08 am • 1 0 • view
maybe they'll die, web sites don't need to go forever
aug 29, 2025, 5:57 pm • 5 0 • view
No, no! Everything must create ever-increasing profits year over year ETERNALLY!
aug 29, 2025, 6:06 pm • 6 0 • view
This brings us to the real issue...perpetual growth... which is the ideology of a cancer cell. 😟
aug 29, 2025, 6:14 pm • 29 2 • view
I bet you talk less and bite more 😏
aug 30, 2025, 11:18 am • 0 0 • view
Mark this is misleading. The question isn’t about survival. this is about the economic surplus a business creates and who gets it. Does it go back to the community in the form of trust and safety resources, or does it go to capital allocators who built nothing? That’s the honest question.
aug 29, 2025, 8:55 pm • 2 0 • view
You do realize some states offer #healthcare for adults with low income which is most small business owners with personal LLCs vs the slavery model for employees. #oneminnesota @startribune.com
sep 1, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
We will manage. Bye.
aug 29, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
I’d pay every time Martha ratios you.
aug 29, 2025, 8:36 pm • 11 1 • view
I was actually thinking about this yesterday when I noticed the count down to TikTok is soon. What will we all do for truth? Information? Real news? How can Bluesky support all of us? Who finances it, etc….?
aug 29, 2025, 11:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Mr. Cuban, with all due respect, how do public schools, public parks, public roads, etc. pay for bills? Buy equipment? Pay employee living wages & health insurance? It is certainly possible for community services, spaces, & forums to survive w/out income. But rich powerful people don’t like this
aug 30, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
Cubes, if you're this master strategist who knows how this site should be run and what democrats need to do to win elections, how the hell did you get rugged out of your own basketball team?
aug 29, 2025, 5:36 pm • 8 0 • view
Like, the Adelsons win elections AND control the Mavs, maybe I'm gonna check if they have any tips and tricks
aug 29, 2025, 5:37 pm • 4 0 • view
KICK HIS ASS, MARTHA
aug 29, 2025, 6:42 pm • 6 0 • view
Martha you're the best.
aug 29, 2025, 2:25 pm • 17 0 • view
OMG SHE DONT MISS
aug 29, 2025, 5:58 pm • 13 0 • view
Martha did you know he's not even from Cuba?
aug 29, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
get em martha
aug 29, 2025, 12:47 pm • 51 0 • view
hell yeah martha
aug 29, 2025, 3:39 pm • 6 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 4:36 pm • 38 0 • view
Get his ass, Martha!
aug 29, 2025, 1:07 pm • 18 0 • view
Thank you Martha!
aug 29, 2025, 4:06 pm • 5 0 • view
That's right, get his ass.
aug 29, 2025, 2:11 pm • 12 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Get his ass, Martha
aug 29, 2025, 3:32 pm • 8 0 • view
Martha will you be my grandma?
aug 29, 2025, 1:56 pm • 77 0 • view
she's bsky's grandma
aug 29, 2025, 2:05 pm • 71 0 • view
And we will defend her with our lives
aug 29, 2025, 2:08 pm • 41 0 • view
Martha from the top rope.
aug 29, 2025, 8:15 pm • 3 0 • view
The community isn't going to exist if there's no damn money to keep it going. This is a business, not a charity, it costs money to run.
aug 29, 2025, 5:21 pm • 1 0 • view
GET HIS ASS MARTHA
aug 29, 2025, 2:27 pm • 12 0 • view
Show him no mercy, Martha
aug 29, 2025, 2:45 pm • 10 0 • view
Cubes the victim of yet another Martha poster
aug 29, 2025, 3:38 pm • 16 0 • view
get his ass, martha.
aug 29, 2025, 5:45 pm • 3 0 • view
How do you think companies pay for the technology costs? It either needs to be subscription model or advertising....you get to choose
aug 29, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
no we dont, naive child
aug 29, 2025, 2:30 pm • 11 0 • view
Oh how does this get paid for then... educate me oh brilliant one
aug 29, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
oh how does one get to choose poopy poos
aug 29, 2025, 3:03 pm • 13 1 • view
Peepeepoopoo
aug 29, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
think outside the box
aug 29, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Last I checked forums survived for decades with 0 subscriptions or ads. But please, go off
aug 29, 2025, 3:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Who hosted these forums?
aug 29, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Depends on if it's an official forum or a fan forum. I used both for many years, never had to pay a subscription, and the most ads I ever saw was like a banner at the bottom of the screen if anything. But please, tell me how those are still around to this day despite not existing to make money
aug 29, 2025, 3:45 pm • 4 0 • view
Martha you are the greatest
aug 29, 2025, 4:47 pm • 4 0 • view
Ratio assist
aug 29, 2025, 7:03 pm • 5 0 • view
GET 👏 HIS 👏 ASS 👏
aug 29, 2025, 12:58 pm • 76 0 • view
⬆️The crux of every problem we face as a species
aug 29, 2025, 2:47 pm • 7 0 • view
right on!!
aug 29, 2025, 3:34 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 12:43 pm • 304 28 • view
Skeeting and seething lol
aug 29, 2025, 3:32 pm • 17 0 • view
He doesn't have to be interested in making money to realize that it costs money to have a site like this and keep it up. Money has to come from somewhere, or there will be no community.
aug 29, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
imagine having to buy your friends that way
aug 29, 2025, 12:40 pm • 99 0 • view
@blerrycat1.bsky.social Follow her
aug 29, 2025, 4:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Why me? I mostly shitpost & don't talk about politics!
aug 29, 2025, 5:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Fair enough. It gives me a little hope to see her comments, though. Been short on hope :(
aug 29, 2025, 8:16 pm • 2 0 • view
I follow brit but if she hasn't followed me yet then it ain't gonna happen!
aug 29, 2025, 8:20 pm • 3 0 • view
that's what you think
aug 29, 2025, 8:21 pm • 4 0 • view
(i'm slow at this)
aug 29, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Don't you dare! 😹
aug 29, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
I do it the old fashioned way; weed, beer and a big screen TV.
aug 29, 2025, 12:58 pm • 41 0 • view
aug 29, 2025, 3:31 pm • 8 0 • view
Fuck yeah Martha wreck this oligarch!
aug 29, 2025, 2:26 pm • 16 0 • view
You’ve radicalised me, Martha.
aug 29, 2025, 3:21 pm • 7 0 • view
I’m not a Mark Cuban stan, but I think you missed his point. If you want this site to survive because you enjoy the community, it needs to generate revenue in some way. At least that’s how I read it. I don’t agree with his demo comment though.
aug 29, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Booooooooooo
aug 29, 2025, 3:25 pm • 8 0 • view
i, for one, very believe that kt dallas is not a mark cuban stan
aug 29, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
it's decentralized, which is still a fairly newer concept in social media for a lot of us (self included, even after being on here for two and a half years) so there's different ways of generating revenue outside of the more traditional means
aug 29, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
No, this site needs to follow the paths taken by companies that it has very little in common with from a technical perspective. We need constant ads, spying, and promoted right wing content. I am very smart.
aug 29, 2025, 4:40 pm • 2 0 • view
P🔲U🔲S🔲S🔲Y I🔲N B🔲I🔲O
aug 29, 2025, 4:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah, I’ve been wondering from the beginning how it’s going to eventually generate revenue. I would love to see a different model work.
aug 29, 2025, 7:13 pm • 2 0 • view
i'd like to have hope for that. it's been nice not having ads & brands super active on here, and i think by keeping the sources of funding variable & decentralized helps keep the site less beholden to appeasing specific people/orgs with whatever bias.
aug 29, 2025, 7:24 pm • 3 0 • view
@maireadeire.bsky.social seems a little cowardly to turn off comments and quotes, but that’s just me. If all you have is a shush, then I can only assume what I said was correct. 👍🏻
aug 29, 2025, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
You're being weird.
aug 29, 2025, 4:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Can we collectively dub ‘Martha’ the antithesis of ‘Karen’
aug 29, 2025, 2:59 pm • 9 0 • view
You murdered him gammy
aug 29, 2025, 6:43 pm • 4 0 • view
In Martha we trust!
aug 29, 2025, 4:43 pm • 3 0 • view
You're amazing, Martha! <3
aug 29, 2025, 5:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Martha, my dear, you are the best
aug 29, 2025, 2:09 pm • 28 0 • view
Hell yes Martha
aug 29, 2025, 12:59 pm • 16 0 • view
Evergreen.
aug 29, 2025, 5:57 pm • 13 1 • view
Get his ass, Martha!
aug 29, 2025, 2:50 pm • 14 0 • view
Hell yeah, Martha, get his ass
aug 29, 2025, 1:01 pm • 15 0 • view
You are an inspiration, Martha!!
aug 30, 2025, 5:05 pm • 1 0 • view
fuck him up martha
aug 29, 2025, 4:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Cook him, Martha
aug 29, 2025, 2:10 pm • 15 0 • view
Martha out here ratioing a billionaire.
aug 29, 2025, 3:54 pm • 13 0 • view
for the FOURTH time in under a month!
aug 29, 2025, 4:31 pm • 9 0 • view
Legendary
aug 29, 2025, 2:40 pm • 6 0 • view
Mark you have to give martha your account now sorry
aug 29, 2025, 3:30 pm • 9 0 • view
Sing it, Martha! I'm here for you!
aug 29, 2025, 3:03 pm • 6 0 • view
This is one of those takes that’s self gratifying to cheer on, but doesn’t serve any larger purpose. Hating on capitalism is fun, but Bluesky still needs money. Who’s going to pay for development and hosting if it can’t be monetized? Where is additional funding going to come from without growth?
aug 29, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Do it with the money we save by living rent free in conservative’s tiny little gutter brains.
aug 29, 2025, 4:33 pm • 5 0 • view
by cutting out starbucks & eating less avocado toast
aug 29, 2025, 4:32 pm • 10 0 • view
millennials are killing the bluesky industry
aug 29, 2025, 4:33 pm • 5 0 • view
Top tier response honestly.
aug 29, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
the millennial way 😌
aug 29, 2025, 4:40 pm • 2 0 • view
BS! Mark is one of the most socially aware wealthy people. He doesn't need to "monetize". Have you been hiding in a basement?
aug 29, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
How do you know he's "aware"?
aug 30, 2025, 1:23 am • 16 0 • view
Love your work, Martha 💖
aug 29, 2025, 6:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Hell yeah, Martha! Stuff that dork into a locker
aug 29, 2025, 3:22 pm • 7 0 • view
get his ass Martha!
aug 29, 2025, 5:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Martha rules Marc Cuban drools
aug 29, 2025, 4:45 pm • 19 0 • view