Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down from the board of Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform he conceived and funded in 2019 while he was CEO of Twitter. Bluesky confirmed Dorsey’s departure in a May 5 post on the platform, stating that it was searching for a new board member and thanking Dorsey for his help in starting and funding the project. Meanwhile, early Bluesky backers were busy promoting grants for open interest protocols and referring to the social network, now owned by Elon Musk, as freedom technology.
Tech sector executive social activity tracker Big Tech Alert reported that Dorsey had unfollowed “well over 2000 people,” reducing his follow list to just three individuals: Musk, Stella Assange (wife of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange), and NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden. Dorsey’s continued following of Musk and the endorsement of Bluesky suggest that the two may have reconciled. In April 2023, Dorsey criticized Musk on Bluesky, stating that Musk was managing poorly and that the board should not have forced the sale to him.
Dorsey announced Bluesky in late 2019, stating that Twitter 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 did not launch in beta until March 2023 and was only opened to everyone on February 7, 2024. According to its own statistics, it has around 5.6 million users.
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