(Bloomberg) — Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago, following regrets over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk .
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now renamed X, to tout his new philanthropic grants supporting open internet protocols, which he described as a “technology of freedom.” He also added X to this class of technology, simply clarifying that companies can also rely on open protocols.
Dorsey narrowed the list of people he follows on X to three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks editor. This suggests an apparent warming of relations between the X owner and Dorsey, who posted on Bluesky a year ago that “everything went wrong” after Musk’s takeover and Twitter’s radical transformation.
Bluesky is a network and protocol launched to pursue Dorsey’s platonic ideal for Twitter as a service without central control, and opened to all interested users in February. The social service made a splash in its early days as a way to escape the upheaval on Twitter after Musk’s acquisition, though it has since been eclipsed by the launch of Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads as the more viable alternative. Dorsey responded to a question on X about whether he was still on Bluesky’s board of directors with a “no.”
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