Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, has announced that he is stepping down from the board of Bluesky, a social networking service that he helped establish. This decision comes after Dorsey’s regret over selling Twitter to Elon Musk. In a tweet on Musk’s platform X, Dorsey announced his new philanthropic grants for open internet protocols, which he refers to as “freedom technology”.
Dorsey has now shifted his focus to these grants and has narrowed down the list of people he follows on X to just three individuals: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange. When asked if he was still part of the Bluesky board, Dorsey responded with a simple “no” on X.
Bluesky was created as a network and protocol with the goal of embodying Dorsey’s vision for Twitter as a service without centralized control. Initially seen as an alternative to Twitter after Musk’s acquisition, Bluesky has now been somewhat overshadowed by Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads. However, Dorsey remains committed to promoting open internet protocols and believes that corporations can build on them as well.
