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What do you do if you’re trying to build a new Twitter without a billion-user headstart?

Just as Meta opened the Threads floodgates, fellow Twitter alternative Bluesky announced an $8 million funding round to “expand our team, manage increasing operation and infrastructure costs, and grow the AT Protocol ecosystem as well as the Bluesky app.”

It also announced its first paid service — domain sales. Since Bluesky users can tie their account to any domain they own, it’s partnering with Namecheap to simplify the process, saying users can pick a domain and get it set up in less than a minute.

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