Jack Dorsey Leaves Bluesky Board: How His Decision May Signal an Improvement in Relations with Elon Musk

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and CEO of Block, has recently made a decision to leave the board of Bluesky, a social networking service that he helped create and popularize over a year ago. This move comes after Dorsey expressed his regrets over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.

In an announcement on X, Dorsey’s new philanthropic grants towards open internet protocols, which he refers to as “freedom technology,” he also mentioned that corporations can build upon these protocols. This shift in his social media activity suggests an improvement in relations between Dorsey and Musk, after Dorsey expressed disappointment with Musk’s changes to Twitter.

Dorsey has reduced the number of people he follows on X to just three individuals: Musk, Edward Snowden, and Stella Assange, the wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher. He continues to advocate for using freedom technology to defend one’s own rights rather than relying on corporations to grant them.

Bluesky was launched with the goal of realizing Dorsey’s ideal vision for Twitter without central control. The platform opened to all interested users in February and initially received attention as an alternative to Twitter following Musk’s ownership. However, Bluesky has since been overshadowed by Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads as a more popular alternative. In response to a question on X regarding his status on the Bluesky board, Dorsey simply replied with a “no.”