Jack Dorsey Departs Bluesky (theverge.com) 34
Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of Bluesky, the Twitter alternative he helped start. The announcement comes shortly after Dorsey unfollowed all but three accounts on X and referred to Elon Musk's platform as "freedom technology." The Verge reports: In two posts today, Bluesky thanked Dorsey while confirming his departure and adding that it's searching for a new board member "who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experience." [...] Neither Bluesky nor Dorsey himself seem to have said how or why he left the board. For now, two board members remain: CEO, Jay Graeber, and Jabber / XMPP inventor Jeremie Miller. Dorsey originally backed Bluesky in 2019 as a project to develop an open-source social media standard that he wanted Twitter to move to. He later joined its board of directors when it split from Twitter in 2022.
Jumping the shark. (Score:1, Troll)
...referred to Elon Musk's platform as "freedom technology."
Sounds like Jack went full Kanye, and got booted out of Bluesky.
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don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights.
defend them yourself using freedom technology.
(you’re on one)
I think it's fair to assume that was meant to be a compliment.
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I don't get the reference. What does "freedom technology" mean? Is that a compliment?
I checked the original tweet linked there in the summary to see if maybe I was misinterpreting it, but the text is:
There's really no way to see that as anything but an endorsement for Twitter, the platform that Mastodon, Bluesky, etc are competitors of (I mean "competitor" as in trying to take away users/mindshare from each other. How each group makes, or doesn't try to make, money doesn
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Which contrasted to the texts he sent Elon Musk when he was contemplating purchasing it talking about making it an open protocol with no advertising model without centralized control which Twitter is sorta 1/6 of the way there since they have opened up some parts of their system.
My guess is either Dorsey, realizing Twitter has brushed off all the attempts to dethrone it is going "undercover" to convince Musk to to enact more of his vision since now there are no shareholders, he just has to convince one guy.
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In practice when any platform has too much freedom, the people in power try to shut it down. In a recent interview, Blinken discussed why they want to shut down TikTok, and one of the reasons is that it's breaking down the Israeli PR over the war. Not just on TikTok, the videos that start there spread to Twitter and Facebook as well.
There is always some particular thing. Musk's bug bare is due to his daughter being trans and their relationship breaking down - he has actually made the word "cis" cause tweets
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Parler isn't a free for all. I was banned from there within a couple days. They have very strict rules.
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I love seeing these moronic takes. All of it is is just the poster crying about Musk. And you have been wrong about everything. Twitter never imploded after they cut the fat. Twitter is no longer a liberal echo chamber where others are silenced based on the Democrats. The # of people on twitter continues to grow month after month since your kind said the sky will fall. I bet you are really going to love this year.
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I don't get the reference. What does "freedom technology" mean? Is that a compliment?
I checked the original tweet linked there in the summary to see if maybe I was misinterpreting it, but the text is:
There's really no way to see that as anything but an endorsement for Twitter, the platform that Mastodon, Bluesky, etc are competitors of (I mean "competitor" as in trying to take away users/mindshare from each other. How each group makes, or doesn't try to make, money doesn't matter here).
So yeah. Jack Dorsey coming out and dubbing a platform that is being overrun with bots and actual Nazis, and run by an egotistical manchild who uses his control of the platform to promote his own speech and supress others', as "freedom technology" is a real discordant notion when he's on Bluesky's board -- so bye bye!
The fact is that Twitter was bloated crap run by hypersensitive children of helicopter parents before Musk bought it. Their so-called curators were nothing but an Opinion Police brigade, and if they didn't like your opinion, you didn't get to use Twitter. You were One With The Body, or you were cast out. It was basically run by a bunch of Mean Girls with a Cancel button. Musk's management hasn't been perfect, but it's been a large improvement over the previous state of things. When he fired said curators, i
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Bluesky has like 4x the users Mastodon does but they are both dead, irrelevant projects as far as viable Twitter competitors are, these are just their own smaller enclaves now. The network effect is too strong and 10 little guys can't always do the work of just another big guy.
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Except nothing can kill off Mastodon. It's like Linux was in the 1990s: seen as a toy, a non-serious competitor to UNIX or Windows. But because nothing could kill it off, that didn't matter, and it eventually grew to dominate the server space and the mobile device space, and is starting to get a toehold on the desktop.
And yes, Linux's desktop market share is currently small, but nothing can kill it off...
Nothing can kill it off is the secret super-power of open software.
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That is absolutely true I cannot nor would I dispute it. That does not make it a successful competitor to Twitter simply because it doesn't have the users, just a matter of what metrics are we judging it. In a better world we are all using Mastodon.
It's the same with desktops as opposed to those other spaces. Why use Windows? "All my software is there". Why use Twitter? "All my follows and followers are there, along with celebrities, journalists, shitposters, all types.
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Oh, Mastodon is not by any means currently a successful competitor to Twitter.
All it has to do is not be killed off before Twitter finally implodes. Whether that takes a couple of years or a couple of decades, I don't know.
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You said exactly what I was thinking of after this, it could take off if Twitter implodes. Yeah I don't know the timescale, to his credit(?) it has not yet and it doesn't appear that he cares about it losing money.
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I don't get the reference. What does "freedom technology" mean? Is that a compliment?
Bluesky is a stupid platform.
I dunno, Blueski sounds a little pink, if you know what I mean. In Soviet Russia, Bluesky something something. It's late.
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1) You don't open to more people than you have the capacity to serve.
2) They do not use the same backend. Bluesky's backend is specifically designed to fix Mastodon's design flaws that make it so annoying.
3) Bluesky is growing far faster than Mastodon.
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He didn't get "booted", but it was a rather amusing situation, where he dropped a bunch of seed money on Jay's project to make Bluesky... only to find out that the vast majority of the people who flocked there don't actually like him, and weren't afraid to let him know ;)
Back to Twitter (Score:2)
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I'm pretty sure that is the plan... but I doubt it will be that fast.
He will need to spend some more time kissing up first. Probably have to buy his way in as an investor as well.
Mastodon (Score:2)
So it looks like Mastodon was the right choice for me after all.
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Huh? You're upset that Jack left Bluesky because people there didn't like him? I'm confused.
OT: "Bluesky" (Score:2)
Am I the only one who reads "Bluesky" to rhyme with "Russkiy"?
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The Bluesky Mir is coming ;)
Seems he never got a following on Bsky (Score:1)
It turns out the Bluesky folks just weren't his people. The community wasn't interested in all the crypto crap he was constantly peddling, so he just stopped posting there.
Maybe he feels more at home on X with the crypto scammers and porn bots.
Dorsey is looney (Score:2)
Dorsey has been looney for quite a while now, pretty much ever since he gave up the reins at Twitter.
he wanted crypto-focus and no blocking. (Score:2)
The lack of crypto bots (or any other unwanted crap) shoved into my feed against my will, and the ability to block Nazis and never have to deal with them again are the two best features of Bluesky. Good riddance to this ding dong. He's sucks. Let him go ruin some other platform.
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Have you tried visiting Twitter after hanging out on Bluesky for a while? OMG, it feels like a dystopia. Was it always that bad and did I just forget, or has it gotten that much worse since I left?
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yeah Twitter is just a straight up nightmare at this point. i think it's a little bit of both -- it was always terrible, but it's gotten so so so much worse.