Jack Dorsey has recently made the decision to leave the board of Bluesky, a social networking service that he helped to fund and popularize about a year ago. This decision comes in light of his regrets over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk. Dorsey took to the Musk-owned platform, now known as X, to announce 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 list of people he follows on X to just three individuals: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella 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, a network and protocol that Dorsey helped to create, was launched with the goal of realizing his 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 the launch of 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.”