There's a lot of misinformation circulating that obscures or softens Jack Dorsey's relationship to Bluesky, Bluesky to Twitter, &/or Dorsey to Musk/Twitter.
On Dec 11, 2019, Dorsey announced on Twitter that he'd started Bluesky as part of Twitter, to serve Twitter, & funded by Twitter $, "to develop an open & decentralized standard for social media." (One already existed. Clearly the goal was one he controlled.)
"The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this [Bluesky] standard."
"The goal was to build a decentralized social network protocol that could eventually hook into Twitter — making it interoperable with other networks unrelated to the company...Bluesky was set up as an independent entity producing nonproprietary open-source work — even as it was funded by Twitter."
Serving Musk's Twitter as a client remains a goal. Jack remains.
"Jack Dorsey is on your board and helped dream this all up....Has there been a change with his involvement in Bluesky? Nope..."
"Bluesky was launched under Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s leadership back in 2019, & its initial manager was Parag Agrawal, then Twitter’s CTO and later Dorsey’s replacement."
It took Jack 2 years to "hand select" someone he wanted to put in charge of Twitter's Bluesky project. That was Jay Graber, a cryptocurrency developer.
"Bluesky was formally organized as a public benefit LLC led by software engineer Jay Graber in late 2021, and as of April, it had received $13 million from Twitter.""
Here's where Jack's longstanding "moral flexibility" towards anti-Semites & fascists comes in. He never watned to ban/moderate them.
"Dorsey imagined decentralization as a way to sidestep increasingly bitter content moderation debates among law- & policy-makers. Decentralized social networking protocols like ActivityPub (which powers Mastodon) already existed, and to the extent Bluesky has a unique vision, it reflects ideas like Dorsey’s love of “algorithmic choice”
He would have been, & will be, happy with one arm of Bluesky being used by his advisor Ali Alexander to plan the next armed Proud Boys/GOP attack on the Capitol building - and the other arm being used by you to bemoan SCOTUS corruption & the New Jim Crow voting restrictions, & what he & Musk undoubtedly delight, behind closed doors, in referring to as "woke nonsense." The $ & power asymmetry makes this work for the GOP.
No content moderation means no pesky Congressional hearings for him & Musk.
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