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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.
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Jack Dorsey Departs Bluesky

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  • ...referred to Elon Musk's platform as "freedom technology."

    Sounds like Jack went full Kanye, and got booted out of Bluesky.

    • by Rei ( 128717 )

      Sounds like Jack went full Kanye, and got booted out of Bluesky.

      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 ;)

  • He should be back at twitter in charge of rule making and on musks speed dial before the end of the week. The beltway media hivemind will explode.
    • 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.

  • So it looks like Mastodon was the right choice for me after all.

    • by Rei ( 128717 )

      Huh? You're upset that Jack left Bluesky because people there didn't like him? I'm confused.

  • Am I the only one who reads "Bluesky" to rhyme with "Russkiy"?

  • 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 has been looney for quite a while now, pretty much ever since he gave up the reins at Twitter.

  • 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.

    • by Rei ( 128717 )

      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?

      • by pezpunk ( 205653 )

        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.

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