Jack Dorsey, the founder of social platform Twitter, has officially stepped down from the board of Bluesky, a decentralized social media platform he conceptualized during his tenure as CEO of Twitter in 2019. Bluesky aims to create an open-source, decentralized architecture for social media and was finally launched on the App Store in 2022.
However, Bluesky recently confirmed that Dorsey has formally exited the board and stated that the team is currently “seeking new board members,” while expressing gratitude for Dorsey’s contributions in initiating and funding the project. When asked on X by netizens whether Dorsey is still on the board of Bluesky, he simply replied, “No.”
Neither Bluesky nor Dorsey have explained the reasons behind his decision to leave.
Jack Dorsey’s Active Involvement in Bitcoin Ecosystem
Dorsey, a staunch believer in Bitcoin, and his companies have been actively developing the Bitcoin ecosystem in recent years. For example, Block (formerly Square) announced last month that it has completed the development of 3-nanometer chips for Bitcoin mining and is collaborating with a leading global semiconductor foundry for design purposes.
On the 4th of this month, privacy advocate Edward Snowden called for “privacy features to be added to the Bitcoin protocol” on social media. Shortly after, Dorsey retweeted the tweet and announced that his charity initiative, #startsmall, will donate $21 million to OpenSats, a Bitcoin nonprofit organization that supports Bitcoin and open-source project developers, to assist in the widespread adoption of Bitcoin infrastructure.
Interestingly, after selling Twitter to Musk, Dorsey immediately shifted his focus to his own community media platform, Bluesky, and expressed dissatisfaction with the chaos that ensued after Musk took over Twitter, stating, “I don’t think (Musk is the best manager for Twitter).”
However, on the 4th of this month, Dorsey also tweeted, “Don’t rely on corporations to grant you rights. Use free technology to self-defend,” and added in parentheses at the end of the tweet, “You are using one right now,” implying that X platform is also a form of free technology. This suggests that the relationship between the two parties may have eased.
Recently, for unknown reasons, Dorsey’s official X account unfollowed over 2,000 people, leaving only Musk, Stella Assange (wife of WikiLeaks founder), and Edward Snowden. In the comments section of the tweet, where complaints about X being terrible were made, Dorsey also stated that the only way to “fix” the X algorithm is to use open protocols and called on companies to strive further on this basis.
References: cointelegraph, coindesk