Re:Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twi...
by wmf on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:14PM
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Technically yeah, Jack is not working on Bluesky but it's his vision and they're still following his vision even after he left Twitter. The Bluesky people kind of downplay their connection to Twitter but IMO without that connection they're just yet another protocol with no users and no killer feature.
Re:Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twi...
by rektide on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:47PM
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I am somewhat saddened to ascertain that most of this project is still rather somewhat under corporate twitter control. Oh boo.
I've spent less than an hour reviewing atproto. So far it has passed my sniff tests; seems legit decentralizing. But there's definitely room for gotchas I havent seen yet.
Thanks for detailing where the powers lie. So far, I'm still willing to attribute great intent & purpose. But it's important to consider, to know influences. Your post is much appreciated, evem if, for now, I believe it all, ascribe- hestinatly- to this system.
Bluesky was an initiative launched by Jack Dorsey while he was CEO of Twitter, and it was intended to develop a set of federated social media protocols and eventually move Twitter to those protocols. (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/11/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-anno...)
He hired a development team for it (led by Jay Graber) who still work on the project today, probably as employees of Twitter? Jack's role in the project is unclear, apart from being a board member of the organization.
I have no idea what the relations between all the parties are at the moment, considering Dorsey x Twitter x Musk x everything else that has happened since December 2019, but as far as I can tell Bluesky – while working independently – is still fully funded by Twitter. It is not Dorsey's company as everyone seems to believe.