Comment on Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 week ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative.
Dorsey first announced Bluesky in 2019, back when he was still CEO of Twitter.
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.”
Since then, Bluesky has become an independent public benefit corporation, led by CEO Jay Graber, with VC backing, and it opened to the general public in February.
Dorsey appears to have deleted his Bluesky account at some point last year, though his departure was only acknowledged at the time by a smattering of social media posts.
In addition to dropping corporate news, he’s also weighed in on the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, unfollowed nearly every other account, and posted, “don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights.
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Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Says this guy who literally egged on Musk to buy up Twitter and turn it into the shit hole it is today. 😂 Can’t make this shit up.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
This butchered it. He actually said:
He’s back to praising Musk.
Pretty sure he left Bluesky because he was mad about them having a block feature. Basically when Musk turned a block into a mute, he turned tail from people actually trying to build a not-dogshit-product and ran back to his former dogshit product.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s arguably worse! He’s pissy that people aren’t allowed to freely harass others and calls that a right becuz muh freeze peach. What an enormous shit head.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah he’s been that guy for a while.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 week ago
“Go die for using the social media platform I don’t like” doesn’t seem unreasonable at all.
deafboy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why are people still talking about the block feature? You can’t block people on decentralized platforms. Period.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 week ago
What are you talking about? Blocking works just fine. Both on Lemmy and Twitter.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As bad as it is for the public, it was brilliant business move. Pre-Musk Twitter was barely making any net income (post-Must it makes ZERO net income). It was a profitable business, but just barely, and had been unprofitable for many years.
Goading Musk into committing to buy Twitter at the inflated high stock price allowed Twitter shareholders to cash out at a far higher value than they ever could have trying to run Twitter as a money making venture.
Keep in mind, I’m not saying we don’t all lose because Twitter is a shithole now, but from a purely (cutthroat) business perspective the sale was a boon.
Godort@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Honestly, with the unfathomable amount of money he was set the make from that deal, I dont blame him for doing it.
It’s a good message too, if you ignore who said it and why.