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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has left Bluesky’s board — the decentralized social media platform he conceived and funded in 2019 when he was Twitter’s CEO.
Bluesky confirmed Dorsey’s exit in a May 5 <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3krrebumv3k2h" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">post</a> on the platform, writing that it was “searching for a new board member” and thanked Dorsey for his help in starting and funding the project.
Hours earlier, Dorsey had <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1786739952627208579" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">responded</a> with a curt “no” to someone on X asking if he was still on Bluesky’s board. Neither Bluesky nor Dorsey explained why he decided to leave. Bluesky did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Meanwhile, the early Bluesky backer was busy on X plugging his grants for open interest protocols and <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1786773074232107424" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">calling</a> the now Elon Musk-owned social network “freedom technology.”
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Tech sector executive social activity tracking X account Big Tech Alert <a href="https://twitter.com/BigTechAlert/status/1786919454422516133" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">posted</a> that Dorsey had unfollowed “well over 2000 people,” parsing his follow list down to three people: Musk, Stella Assange — wife of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — and NSA <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/nsa-days-from-taking-over-internet-whistleblower-edward-snowden">contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden</a><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/nsa-days-from-taking-over-internet-whistleblower-edward-snowden"></a>.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/friend-tech-decentralized-social-media-onboarding-problem">Decentralized social networks have a retention problem, say execs</a>
Dorsey keeping Musk on his follow list and the endorsement of X suggests the two may have made amends.
In April 2023, Dorsey took to Bluesky to lambast Musk, saying he was running X poorly and the board shouldn’t have forced the sale to him, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/29/jack-dorsey-thinks-elon-musk-isnt-doing-right-by-twitter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">according</a> to&nbsp;TechCrunch.
Dorsey announced Bluesky in late 2019 when he was Twitter’s CEO, <a href="https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">posting</a> that the firm was “funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.”
Bluesky didn’t <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/twitter-down-the-same-day-jack-dorsey-launches-decentralized-alternative">launch in beta</a> until March 2023 and only opened to everyone on Feb. 7, 2024. It has around 5.6 million users, <a href="https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">according</a> to its own stats.
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Jack Dorsey leaves board of decentralized social network Bluesky

Cointelegraph

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