Abdul Ly
aly.bsky.social
Abdul Ly
@aly.bsky.social
Musings of a borderless soul. Venture investor
Amad Diallo is restoring my hope. He deserves #7
January 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I’m inspired by people on the come up. Before fundraising, Ezra spoke to 100s of people to validate the customer opportunity for Caliza. 12 hours a day for months was his “5 beats a day for 3 summers” moment. Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O45r...
January 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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We want Bluesky to be a great home for journalists, publishers, and creators. Unlike other platforms, we don't de-promote your links. Post all the links you want — Bluesky is a lobby to the open web.
Traffic from Bluesky's @bsky.app to @theguardian.com is already 2x that of Threads

In its first week on the platform & with 300k followers, Bluesky traffic from @theguardian.com posts is already higher than it was from TwX in any week in 2024, where the account had 10.8m followers, but🧵
November 27, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Serrano did her thing in those bred 11s
November 16, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Winning by decision was the right outcome because nobody wanted to see Mike get knocked out at that age
November 16, 2024 at 5:41 AM
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Bluesky explained in 60 seconds!
November 13, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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Bluesky has grown by over 3M people in the last week — welcome!

With every wave of growth naturally comes an increase in moderation reports. Here’s a status report on how the Trust & Safety team is handling it:
November 15, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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We hit some all-time records yesterday: highest number of unique posters and posts. What a way to celebrate the big MIL 🎉
September 13, 2023 at 5:32 PM
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Very excited to announce our seed round and our first paid service - easy to setup custom domains - in partnership w Namecheap. Since our data is public, we won’t be selling data for ads. It’s time for new ways of operating in social!
Bluesky is a public benefit corp with the mission “to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.”

The PBC status allows us to pursue our mission above profit, but we still need to make this open ecosystem sustainable.
July 5, 2023 at 9:30 PM