Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that he will be stepping down from the board of Bluesky, a social networking service he helped to fund and popularize about a year ago. This decision comes after Dorsey expressed his regrets over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk. In an announcement on Musk-owned platform X, now known as Twitter, Dorsey revealed his new philanthropic grants towards open internet protocols, which he referred to as “freedom technology.” He also mentioned that corporations can also build upon open protocols.
Dorsey has reduced the number of people he follows on X to just three individuals: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange, the wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. This shift in his social media activity suggests a possible improvement in relations between Dorsey and Musk, after Dorsey expressed disappointment with Musk’s changes to Twitter. Dorsey continues to advocate for defending one’s own rights using freedom technology, rather than relying on corporations to grant them.
Bluesky was launched with the goal of realizing Dorsey’s ideal vision for Twitter without central control. The platform opened to all interested users in February and initially received attention as an alternative to Twitter in the wake of Musk’s ownership. However, Bluesky has since been overshadowed by Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads as a more popular alternative. In response to a question on X regarding his status on the Bluesky board, Dorsey simply replied with a “no.”
