Short message service: Jack Dorsey turns his back on Bluesky
Jack Dorsey once founded Bluesky and outsourced it in time for the Twitter takeover. However, he apparently no longer wants anything to do with it.
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Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of the Twitter alternative Bluesky, whose development he himself announced in 2019. He has now made this public with a curt "no" in response to an inquiry in this regard, but not on Bluesky, but on the short message service X, as Twitter is now known. Dorsey apparently deleted his Bluesky account several months ago. The short message service has since admitted the separation from its founder and most well-known supporter and thanked him" sincerely" for his work at the start of the project. The company is now standing on its own two feet as an open-source social network and is now looking for someone to succeed Dorsey on the board.
The founder says goodbye
Bluesky was originally announced by Dorsey as an open protocol and extension for the then still largely unrivaled short message service Twitter. However, even before Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk, the company behind Bluesky was spun off and an independent social network became the goal. The app was then made available as a beta version a few months after the Twitter takeover, still in time for those who wanted to leave Twitter, where Musk had already caused a lot of chaos. Initially, however, an account could only be created with an invitation. The artificial shortage generated a lot of interest, and since February it has been possible to simply register.
It is not known why Dorsey is now apparently cutting all ties with Bluesky. After the Twitter takeover, he used Bluesky to criticize the deal and even wrote at one point that "everything went down the drain" afterwards. When asked a year ago whether Musk was the right boss for Twitter, he also gave a short and concise answer of "No". While he has long since deleted his Bluesky account, he cleaned up the one on X at the weekend. After unfollowing over 2,000 accounts, he now only follows the wife of Julian Assange, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and Elon Musk. Meanwhile, Bluesky is one of the most important short messaging services with more than 5.5 million accounts, even if the service is significantly smaller than Threads.
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