Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter (popularly known as X and headed by Elon Musk now), has quit the board of Bluesky, a decentralised social media platform which he co-founded. The company said it is now searching for a new board member in a post.
Bluesky said on its platform: “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."
Dorsey-backed Bluesky was positioned as an alternative to X, and it reached the landmark of two million users in November last year (2023).
The company appreciated and thanked Dorsey for his help in funding and initiating the project.
“Today, Bluesky is thriving as an open source social network running on 'proto', the decentralised protocol we have built,” it informed.
The company confirmed his departure after an X user asked Dorsey if he was still on Bluesky's board, to which Dorsey responded with a “no”.
The platform has so far launched features like mobile push notifications, general user lists, email verification and advanced feed and thread preferences.
Last year, Bluesky raised $8 million. In 2022, it had secured $13 million in funding with Dorsey joining its board.
Dorsey announced the launch of Bluesky in 2019 when he was still heading Twitter as a CEO. He wrote that Twitter (now X) was “funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.”
Also, read about Elon Musk's X working on adding a Grok AI-powered Stories feature to give users convenient access to summarized versions of trending posts. AI-driven content summarization will gain traction. The platform will remain at the forefront of delivering curated and digestible updates.
Also, in another bid to sanitise X, Musk incorporated limit replies only for the verified users to avoid spam and bots. Reportedly last month started cracking down on spam accounts which resulted in several users losing followers.
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