Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down from the board of social networking service Bluesky, a platform he helped fund and popularize a year ago. This decision comes in the wake of his regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk. Dorsey took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded as X, to announce his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology”. He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey’s departure from Bluesky is seen as a significant shift in his focus towards open internet protocols and freedom technology. He has reduced the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. This suggests an apparent warming of relations between X’s owner and Dorsey, who had posted on Bluesky a year ago that “it all went south” after Musk’s takeover and radical transformation of Twitter.
Bluesky, a network and protocol launched to pursue Dorsey’s ideal for Twitter as a service without central control, opened to all interested users in February. The social service made a splash in its early days as a way to escape the upheaval at Twitter after Musk’s acquisition, though it has since been overshadowed by the launch of Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads as the most viable alternative. With Dorsey’s departure, Bluesky is now searching for a new board member who shares their commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experience.
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