twitter founder Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform he helped start. In two posts todayBluesky thanked Dorsey as he confirmed his departure, adding that he is looking for a new board member “who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experience.”
Neither Bluesky nor Dorsey himself appear to have said how or why he left the board. For now, two board members remain: CEO Jay Graeber and Jabber/XMPP inventor Jeremie Miller. Dorsey originally backed Bluesky in 2019 as a project to develop an open source social media standard that he wanted twitter to move to. the later technology/twitter-funded-social-media-project-bluesky-adds-jack-dorsey-board-2022-02-08/”>joined its board of directors when he separated from twitter in 2022.
But Dorsey apparently had not been a particularly active participant in the company. In March, when The edgeNilay Patel asked Graeber Decoder As for his level of involvement with Bluesky, he said he gets “some comments from time to time,” but implied that otherwise he's “being Jack Dorsey on a cloud,” as Nilay put it. Months before that interview, Dorsey had closed his account blue sky.
Bluesky did not immediately respond to The edgeRequest for comments.
Update May 5, 2024, 4:37 pm ET: Updated with Bluesky's confirmation of Dorsey's departure from its board of directors.
