Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Out Of Bluesky Council

Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter (photo: x @readswithravi ·)

JAKARTA - On Tuesday 7 May, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is no longer a member of the Bluesky board, the decentralized social media platform he built. In two posts today, Bluesky thanked Dorsey while confirming his departure and added that they were looking for new board members "who are committed to building social networks that give users control over their experiences."

The posts came a day after a user asked Dorsey if he was still a member of the company's board, and Dorsey replied, without further explanation, "no."

As quoted by TechCrunch, Dorsey was active yesterday, stopping his followers except for three accounts on platform X while referring to Elon Musk's platform as "freedom technology."

Neither Bluesky nor Dorsey itself seem to have revealed how or why he left the council. Currently, the remaining two members of the council are the CEO, Jay Graeber, and the inventor of Jabard/XMPP, Jeremie Miller.

Dorsey initially supported Bluesky in 2019 as a project to develop open source social media standards he wants Twitter to move there. He later joined the board of directors after Bluesky split from Twitter in 2022.

However, Dorsey did not appear to be an active participant in the company. In March, when Nilay Patel of The Verge asked Graeber for the Decoder show about Dorsey's level of engagement with Bluesky, he said he sometimes got a "attack occasionally," but implied that Dorsey instead "became Jack Dorsey in the clouds," as Nilay explained. A few months before the interview, Dorsey had closed his Bluesky account.