It seems like Bluesky’s most distinguished backer is now not on its board.
On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Begin Small initiative. This prompted somebody to ask Dorsey if he was nonetheless on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse “no.” Dorsey didn’t reply any of the follow-up posts asking him to elucidate his departure.
It’s not clear when Dorsey left the board; as of Sunday morning, Bluesky’s corporate FAQ nonetheless identifies him as a board member. We’ve reached out to the corporate for affirmation.
Dorsey first announced Bluesky in 2019, again when he was nonetheless CEO of Twitter. He wrote that Twitter (now X) was “funding a small impartial group of as much as 5 open supply architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized normal for social media.”
Since then, Bluesky has change into an impartial public profit company, led by CEO Jay Graber, with VC backing, and it opened to most of the people in February.
Dorsey seems to have deleted his Bluesky account in some unspecified time in the future final 12 months, although his departure was solely acknowledged on the time by a smattering of social media posts. (He additionally deleted his Instagram account.) Regardless of this, he remained the biggest name associated with the project.
Again on X, Dorsey has had a fairly lively weekend. Along with dropping company information, he’s additionally weighed in on the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, unfollowed nearly every other account, and posted, “don’t depend upon companies to grant you rights. defend them your self utilizing freedom know-how. (you’re on one)”
