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Bluesky confirmed Jack Dorsey’s departure from the decentralized social media company’s board of directors on Sunday. Earlier this weekend, Twitter’s founder and former CEO tweeted a simple “no” in response to a user’s questions to announce his exit from Bluesky, a platform he helped create.
“We
sincerely
thank
Jack
for
his
help
funding
and
initiating
the
Bluesky
project,”
said
Bluesky
in
a
social
media
post.
“With
Jack’s
departure,
we
are
searching
for
a
new
board
member
for
the
Bluesky
public
benefit
company
who
shares
our
commitment
to
building
a
social
network
that
puts
people
in
control
of
their
experience.”
Bluesky
and
Dorsey
have
yet
to
reveal
why
Twitter’s
founder
has
left
the
board.
Dorsey
first
announced
the
Bluesky
project
on
Twitter
in
2019,
calling
it
“an
open
and
decentralized
standard
for
social
media.”
Originally
launching
as
an
invite-only
social
media
platform,
Bluesky
became
open
to
anyone
this
year,
and
now
appears
to
have
roughly
four
million
users
signed
up.
Dorsey’s
departure
does
not
seem
to
be
a
good
sign
for
the
up-and-coming
platform.
Dorsey
had
an
active
weekend
on
his
old
platform,
X.
The
Twitter
founder
unfollowed
more
than
2,000
accounts,
and
now
is
only
following
Elon
Musk,
Edward
Snowden,
and
Stella
Assange.
Meanwhile,
he
chimed
in
on
Kendrick
and
Drake’s
rap
beef
quite
a
bit.
He
also
seemed
to
call
X
a
“freedom
technology”
in
a
tweet
on
Saturday,
warning
users
to
not
depend
on
corporations
to
grant
them
rights.
NBC News reported last week that federal prosecutors are examining the financial transactions of another Jack Dorsey company, Block. New York prosecutors are examining documents that reportedly show “yearslong compliance lapses” at Block, related to economically sanctioned countries and processing crypto transactions from terrorist groups. Block told NBC it has an “extensive compliance program.”
Bluesky
and
Block
did
not
immediately
respond
to
Gizmodo’s
request
for
comment.
Dorsey
stepped
down
from
Twitter’s
board
in
2022,
marking
his
departure
from
the
ultra-popular
social
media
company
he
founded.
As
Business
Insider
points
out,
Dorsey
called
some
of
Musk’s
early
decisions
with
Twitter
“fairly
reckless”
and
“impatient”
in
a
2023
interview.
However,
the
founder
of
Twitter
also
said
at
the
time
that
he
has
“confidence
in
his
new
CEO.”
In late 2023, Dorsey deleted his Bluesky account while posting on another decentralized social media, Nostr, that he was “removing a bunch of noise.” It’s unclear what’s next for Dorsey, though it seems the Twitter founder is moving further and further away from Bluesky.
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