If there was any doubt about what Jack Dorsey really thinks about Bluesky, the former CEO of Twitter has offered new details about why he left the board and deleted his account on the service he helped launch.
In an unusual interview with Mike Solana from Founders Fund, Dorsey strongly criticized Bluesky, a company that was supposed to be the new and improved Twitter.
In the interview, Dorsey stated that Bluesky was “literally repeating all the mistakes” he made while running Twitter. The conversation is long and a bit confusing, but Dorsey’s complaints seem to boil down to two issues.
Bluesky had to be an open protocol application and not be a corporate entity
The intention was never for Bluesky to be an independent company with its own board of directors, shares, and other vestiges of a corporate entity (Bluesky separated from Twitter as a public benefit corporation in 2022). Instead, their plan was for Twitter to be the first client to leverage the open-source protocol created by Bluesky.
Blueksy ha implementado moderación de contenido y ha tomado medidas contra los usuarios que utilizan insultos racistas en sus nombres de usuario.
“People started seeing Bluesky as something to escape from Twitter,” said Dorsey. “It’s what Twitter is not, and therefore it’s great. And Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter, and it was a very, very common crowd. … But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools and to kick people out. And, unfortunately, they went ahead with that. That was the second moment when I thought, uh, no. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company.”
Dorsey also confirmed that he is financially backing Nostr, another decentralized service similar to Twitter popular among some cryptocurrency enthusiasts and led by an anonymous founder.
“I know it’s early and Nostr is weird and difficult to use, but if you truly believe in resistance to censorship and freedom of expression, you have to use technologies that actually enable it and defend your rights,” said Dorsey.
Much of this is not particularly surprising. If you have followed Jack Dorsey’s public comments in the last two years, you will have seen that he has repeatedly said that Twitter’s “original sin” was being a company indebted to advertisers and other corporate interests.
That’s why he supported the acquisition of the company by Elon Musk, as he stated that it would allow freedom and not suppress any speech.
