Jack Dorsey has announced his decision to step down from the board of Bluesky, a social networking service he helped establish. This move comes after his regret over selling Twitter to Elon Musk. Instead of focusing on Twitter, Dorsey is now directing his attention towards philanthropic grants for open internet protocols, which he calls “freedom technology”.
In a tweet on Musk’s platform X, Dorsey made the announcement and hinted at the possibility of corporations building on open protocols. He has also narrowed down the list of people he follows on X to just three individuals: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange, who is the wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
Bluesky was created with the goal of embodying Dorsey’s vision for Twitter as a decentralized service without centralized control. Initially seen as an alternative to Twitter after Musk’s acquisition, Bluesky has been somewhat overshadowed by Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads. When asked if he was still part of the Bluesky board, Dorsey responded with a simple “no” on X.