Jack Dorsey, co-founder and erstwhile CEO of X/Twitter until he resigned successful 2021, has near nan committee of X rival Bluesky, a decentralized societal media web he helped create, fund, and promote.
Bluesky started arsenic a mini investigation task wrong then-Twitter successful 2019 and became its ain level successful 2022. The company's extremity is to create a communal operating modular for societal media platforms truthful that apps tin activity betwixt them. It useful a lot for illustration Twitter, which it was designed to replace.
Dorsey has been connected Bluesky's committee since nan level split from Twitter, now X, 2 years ago, but took to X connected Saturday to simply constitute "no" erstwhile asked if he was still connected nan board.
no
— jack (@jack) May 4, 2024He besides posted and pinned: "Don't dangle connected corporations to assistance you rights. take sides them yourself utilizing state technology. (you're connected one)" connected nan aforesaid day, deeming X "freedom technology."
Jack Dorsey. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images
On Sunday, Bluesky posted an charismatic connection connected their tract thanking Dorsey "for his thief backing and initiating" Bluesky. The institution stated it was looking for a caller committee personnel "who shares our committedness to building a societal web that puts group successful power of their experience."
We sincerely convey Jack for his thief backing and initiating nan bluesky project. Today, Bluesky is thriving arsenic an unfastened root societal web moving connected atproto, nan decentralized protocol we person built.
— Bluesky (@bsky.app) May 5, 2024 astatine 4:11 PMDorsey besides reportedly unfollowed complete 2,000 group this play and weighed in connected authorities surveillance.
Related: Jack Dorsey Blasts Mark Zuckerberg Over Threads Follow Request: 'Too Soon'
He now follows conscionable 3 group connected X: Elon Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange.
The seemingly nationalist support of X is simply a alteration of tune for Dorsey, who openly called out Elon Musk's activity of X past year.
Dorsey besides founded nan fintech conglomerate Block, which nan Department of Justice is presently investigating aft a erstwhile worker alleged compliance issues.
Dorsey mainly dismissed nan news study astatine Block's net telephone past week.
Related: 'Should Have Walked Away': Jack Dorsey Says 'It All Went South' After Elon Musk Took Over Twitter
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