After publicly exiting<\/a> the board of Twitter\/X rival Bluesky on Saturday, and taking to X<\/a> to announce it, Jack Dorsey explained his thinking in a Thursday interview<\/a> with Founders Fund’s Mike Solana.<\/p>\n Dorsey stated that Bluesky was “supposed to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually utilize” \u2014 not become its own platform with a board and external funding.<\/p>\n Bluesky started<\/a> as a small research project within then-Twitter in 2019<\/a> to create a common operating standard for social media platforms so that apps could work between them. It became its own company in 2022<\/a>. The platform received $8 million in venture capital funding<\/a> in July 2023.<\/p>\n Related: <\/b>Jack Dorsey Announces His Departure from Bluesky on X, Calls Elon Musk’s Platform ‘Freedom Technology’<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n After Bluesky became a separate entity, “that was the first time I felt like, whoa, this isn’t going in a direction I’m really happy with, or that wasn’t the intention,” Dorsey said.<\/p>\n Dorsey notably claimed that Bluesky, the X alternative he helped fund and create, was “literally repeating” the mistakes he saw at Twitter. Dorsey has deleted his Bluesky account, per the interview.<\/p>\n Dorsey also called out Bluesky for providing moderation tools and blocking certain users.<\/p>\n “That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope,” Dorsey said. “This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made [at Twitter\/X]. This is not a protocol that’s truly decentralized. It’s another app.”<\/p>\n Related: Jack Dorsey Showed Up to the Super Bowl Rocking a ‘Satoshi’ T-Shirt<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Bluesky announced<\/a> in December that it was releasing automated<\/a> content moderation tools after controversies<\/a> earlier<\/a> in the year over whether the platform was safe<\/a> for all communities. In March, Bluesky decided to open-source<\/a> its content moderation tool so that users could personalize their feeds.<\/p>\n Bluesky CEO Jay Graber<\/a> responded directly to Dorsey’s comments late Thursday. In a series<\/a> of Bluesky posts, Graber wrote that “Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter has never been.”<\/p>\n With all due respect to Jack for having the vision to invest in decentralized protocols, we’ve carried out the work in a way I don’t think he fully understands. Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter has never been, but the design of atproto allows it to feel familiar and easy to use.<\/p>\n \u2014 Jay ? (@jay.bsky.team<\/a>) May 9, 2024 at 8:32 PM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Graber elaborated<\/a>: “You don’t have to care about or even understand decentralization to use Bluesky, and that’s on purpose. Keeping things simple on the surface creates a good user experience. But if you want to customize your experience, there are endless options under the hood because we built an open system.”<\/p>\n Bluesky’s protocol engineer Paul Frazee called<\/a> unmoderated spaces “a ridiculous idea,” bringing attention to app store rules, users, and regulators.<\/p>\n Also: unmoderated spaces are a ridiculous idea. We created a shared network for competing moderated spaces to exist. Even if somebody wanted to make an unmoderated ATProto app, I guess they could? Good luck with the app stores and regulators and users, I guess.<\/p>\n Checks and balances, not anarchy<\/p>\n \u2014 Paul “Frazee” ? (@pfrazee.com<\/a>) May 9, 2024 at 5:24 PM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Dorsey’s most recent post on X at the time of writing was simply<\/a>: “Show don’t tell.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.entrepreneur.com\/images\/misc\/1715360497_Jack-Dorsey-GettyImages-1027231376.jpg?width=1000\")
Twitter\/X founder Jack Dorsey. Photo Credit: Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/sup><\/i><\/p>\n\n
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