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After publicly resigning from the board of Twitter/X rival Bluesky on Saturday. go to X To announce it, Jack Dorsey explained his idea as follows: thursday interview With Mike Solana of Founders Fund.
Dorsey said Bluesky “was meant to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually leverage,” not a platform of its own with a board of directors or outside funding.
blue sky started As a small research project within Twitter at the time. 2019 Create common operating standards for social media platforms so that apps can work across social media platforms.became an independent company in 2022.This platform received $8 million venture capital funding In July 2023.
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After Bluesky went independent, “it was the first time I felt like, oh, this isn’t going in a direction that I’m really happy with or that it wasn’t meant to be,” Dorsey said.
Notably, Dorsey claimed that Bluesky, the alternative to X he helped fund and create, is “literally repeating” the mistakes he saw on Twitter. According to the interview, Dorsey has deleted his Bluesky account.
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter/X.Photo by: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Dorsey also accused Bluesky of providing moderation tools and blocking certain users.
“That was my second thought,” Dorsey said. “This will literally repeat every mistake we’ve made. [at Twitter/X]. This is not a truly decentralized protocol. It’s a different app. ”
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blue sky announced released in december automated Later content moderation tools controversy Before In the past year, the platform It was safe For all communities. In March, Blue Sky decided to: Open Source A content management tool that allows users to personalize their feed.
Blue Sky CEO jay graber late Thursday in a direct response to Dorsey’s comments.in series Regarding Bluesky’s posts, Graber wrote, “Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter has never been.”
We salute Jack for having the vision to invest in decentralized protocols, but we executed the work in a way that we don’t think he fully understands. Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter hasn’t been before, but atproto’s design makes it approachable and easy to use.
— Jay? (@jay.bsky.team) May 9, 2024 8:32 PM
grabber elaborated: “You don’t need to care about decentralization or even understand decentralization to use Bluesky. This is intentional. By keeping things superficially simple, we create a great user experience. But if you want to customize your experience, we’ve built an open system.”
Paul Frazee, Protocol Engineer at Bluesky called Unmoderated spaces are a “ridiculous idea” and are drawing attention to app store rules, users, and regulators.
Also, unmoderated spaces are a stupid idea. We created a shared network for competitive, moderated spaces to exist. Even if someone wanted to create an unmoderated ATProto app, it could be done, right? Good luck to app stores, regulators, and users.
Checks and balances, not anarchy
— Paul “Frazee”? (@pfrazee.com) May 9, 2024 5:24 PM
Dorsey’s latest posts on X as of this writing are: simply: “Don’t tell, show me.”