Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of X/Twitter until finally he resigned in 2021, has still left the board of X rival Bluesky, a decentralized social media network he served build, fund, and advertise.

Bluesky commenced as a little investigate task in then-Twitter in 2019 and turned its individual platform in 2022. The firm’s aim is to generate a typical functioning conventional for social media platforms so that applications can work in between them. It operates a large amount like Twitter, which it was developed to replace.

Dorsey has been on Bluesky’s board given that the system break up from Twitter, now X, two a long time ago, but took to X on Saturday to simply just produce “no” when asked if he was nonetheless on the board.

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— jack (@jack) May well 4, 2024

He also posted and pinned: “Never depend on organizations to grant you legal rights. protect them by yourself making use of flexibility technological innovation. (you happen to be on one)” on the very same working day, deeming X “independence know-how.”

^{Jack Dorsey. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Illustrations or photos}

On Sunday, Bluesky posted an official assertion on their website thanking Dorsey “for his aid funding and initiating” Bluesky. The firm said it was on the lookout for a new board member “who shares our motivation to creating a social community that places people in handle of their practical experience.”

We sincerely thank Jack for his support funding and initiating the bluesky task. Right now, Bluesky is flourishing as an open up resource social community working on atproto, the decentralized protocol we have created.

— Bluesky (@bsky.app) Might 5, 2024 at 4:11 PM

Dorsey also reportedly unfollowed about 2,000 people today this weekend and weighed in on federal government surveillance.

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He now follows just 3 men and women on X: Elon Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange.

The seemingly community approval of X is a change of tune for Dorsey, who overtly called out Elon Musk’s leadership of X final calendar year.

Dorsey also started the fintech conglomerate Block, which the Division of Justice is at present investigating following a previous staff alleged compliance challenges.

Dorsey generally dismissed the news report at Block’s earnings phone last week.

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