Jack Dorsey leaves the board of directors of decentralized social network Bluesky.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has left the board of Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform he conceived and funded while Twitter CEO, in 2019.

Bluesky confirmed Dorsey’s departure in a May 5 post on the platform, writing that it was “looking for new board members” and thanking Dorsey for helping launch and fund the project.

A few hours ago, Dorsey responded When someone at Neither Bluesky nor Dorsey explained why he decided to leave. Bluesky did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, early Bluesky backers are tying their subsidies to the open interest protocol on calling It is a social network “free tech” currently owned by Elon Musk.

Track Tech Executive Social Activity X Account Big Tech Alert Posted Dorsey said he unfollowed “over 2,000 people” and categorized his follow list into Musk, Stella Assange (wife of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange) and NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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Dorsey’s keeping Musk on his follow list and endorsing X suggest the two men have made amends.

Last April, Dorsey went to Bluesky and lashed out at Musk. According to TechCrunch, he said he was running X poorly and that the board should not have forced him to sell.

Dorsey announced Bluesky in late 2019, when he was CEO of Twitter. electricity The company is “funding small, independent teams of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop open, decentralized standards for social media.”

Bluesky wasn’t released in beta until March 2023, and was only released to everyone on February 7, 2024. According to its own statistics, it has around 5.6 million users.

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