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Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of X/Twitter; resigned In 2021, he retired from the board of Bluesky, a rival of X. Bluesky is a decentralized social media network that he helped create, fund, and promote.
blue sky started As a small research project within Twitter at the time. 2019 And now it’s its own platform 2022. The company’s goal is to create a common operating standard for social media platforms so that apps can work together across them.it works a lot It was like Twitter. designed to replace.
Dorsey is on Bluesky’s board of directors. Since the platform was split When asked by Twitter two years ago, now known as X, on Saturday if he was still an officer, he simply said “no.”
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— Jack (@jack) May 4, 2024
On the same day, he posted, “Don’t depend on companies that give you rights. Use the technology of freedom to protect your rights yourself. (You have that right.)” technology.
Jack Dorsey.Photo by Joe Radle/Getty Images
Sunday, Blue Sky Posted An official statement on their site thanked Dorsey for “funding and launching” Bluesky. The company said it was looking for a new board member “who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experiences.”
A big thank you to Jack for funding and helping get the bluesky project off the ground. Today, Bluesky is a thriving open source social network running on atproto, a decentralized protocol we built.
– Blue sky (@bsky.app) May 5, 2024 4:11pm
Dorsey too reportedly This weekend, I unfollowed over 2,000 people. weighed About government surveillance.
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He currently follows only three people on X: Elon Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange.
This seemingly public acknowledgment of X was a change of attitude for Dorsey, who openly called out Elon Musk’s leadership of X last year.
Mr. Dorsey also founded the fintech conglomerate Block, which is currently being investigated by the Justice Department on suspicion of former employees. Suspected compliance issues.
Dorsey mostly fired This was reported at Mr. Block’s earnings conference last week.
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