Jack Dorsey has announced that he is stepping down from the board of Bluesky, a social networking service that he helped establish a year ago. This decision comes following his regret over selling Twitter to Elon Musk. Dorsey has now shifted his focus to philanthropic grants for open internet protocols, which he refers to as “freedom technology”.
In a tweet on Musk’s platform, X, Dorsey announced his new grants and hinted at the possibility of corporations building on open protocols as well. He has also narrowed down the list of people he follows on X to just three individuals: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange, who is the wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
Bluesky was created as a network and protocol with the goal of embodying Dorsey’s vision for Twitter as a service without centralized control. Initially seen as an alternative to Twitter after Musk’s acquisition, Bluesky has now been somewhat overshadowed by Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads. When asked if he was still part of the Bluesky board, Dorsey responded with a simple “no” on X.