Jack Dorsey has stepped down from the board of Bluesky, a social networking service that he helped establish. This decision comes after his regret over selling Twitter to Elon Musk. Dorsey is now focusing on 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 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 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.