Jack Dorsey has left the board of decentralized social network Bluesky

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has left the board of Bluesky — the decentralized social media platform he conceived and funded while he was Twitter's CEO — in 2019.

Blusky confirmed Dorsey's departure on May 5 on the forum, writing that he was “looking for a new board member” and thanked Dorsey for his help in getting the project started and funded.

Hours earlier, Dorsey responded, “No,” to someone on X asking if he was still on Bluesky's board. Neither Blusky nor Dorsey said why he decided to leave. Bluesky did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, an early Bluesky backer has been busy putting his grant money on X, calling the Elon Musk-owned social network “the technology of freedom.”

Tech sector executive social activity tracker X-Tag Big Tech Alert said Dorsey unfollowed “more than 2,000 people,” analyzing its follower list for three people: Musk, Stella Assange — the wife of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and turned NSA contractor. – Hacker Edward Snowden.

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Dorsey keeping Musk on his list of followers and X's endorsement suggests the two may be on the mend.

In the year In April 2023, Dorsey took it to Bluesky to lambast Musk, saying that X was running poorly and the board shouldn't have forced the sale.

Dorsey Blueskin announced in late 2019 when he was Twitter's CEO that the company was “helping a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers and designers develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.”

Bluesky didn't launch in beta until March 2023 and wasn't open to everyone until February 7, 2024. According to its own statistics, it has about 5.6 million users.

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