He likes Nostr better, even though it is “weird and hard to use.”
In the event that there was any uncertainty over Jack Dorsey’s true feelings regarding Bluesky, the former CEO of Twitter has provided fresh information regarding the reasons he resigned from the board of directors and deactivated his account on the service that he was instrumental in launching. During an interview with Mike Solana of Founders Fund, Dorsey expressed a great deal of disapproval for Bluesky. This discussion was characteristically odd.
The interview was conducted by Dorsey, who asserted that Bluesky was “literally repeating all the mistakes” that he had done while he was in charge of Twitter. In spite of the fact that the entire discussion is lengthy and sometimes rambling, Dorsey’s comments appear to be centered on two main concerns:
Despite the fact that Bluesky was spun out of Twitter in 2022 as a public benefit corporation, he never intended for it to be an independent firm with its own board of directors, stock, and other remnants of a corporate structure. Twitter, on the other hand, was supposed to be the first client to make use of the open source protocol, according to his plan. Bluesky was the source.
The fact that Blueksy employs some kind of content monitoring and has on occasion banned members for certain offenses, such as using racial slurs in their nicknames, is of particular significance.
According to Dorsey, “people started seeing Bluesky as something to run to, away from Twitter that they could escape to.” It is the thing that is not Twitter, and as a result, it is absolutely fantastic. At the same time, Bluesky witnessed a large number of individuals leaving Twitter and arriving, and it was a throng that was extremely usual. However, over time, they began to request that Jay and the team provide them with tools for moderating and give them permission to remove people off. And sadly, they went ahead and carried it out. When I thought about it for the second time, I thought, “Uh, nope.” As a firm, we are essentially repeating all of the errors that we have done in the past.
Dorsey also acknowledged that he is providing financial support to Nostr, which is another decentralized site similar to Twitter that is popular among crypto enthusiasts and is run by an unknown founder. The statement was made by Dorsey. “I know it’s early, and Nostr is weird and difficult to use, but if you truly believe in censorship resistance and free speech, you have to use the technologies that actually enable that, and defend your rights,” Dorsey stated.
There are many aspects of this that do not come as a surprise. If you have been paying attention to Dorsey’s public statements over the past few years, you will have seen that he has stated on multiple occasions that Twitter’s “original sin” was the fact that it was a corporation that would be dependent on advertisers and other corporate interests. Because of this, he went along with Elon Musk’s plan to take over the corporation. The fact that Dorsey still has about one billion dollars of his own money invested in the company that is now known as X is not a coincidence. Also, he has made it quite plain that he was hesitant to make many of the moderation decisions that have the most significant impact on Twitter.
Unsurprisingly, the statements made by Dorsey on Bluesky were not well welcomed by the audience. In a lengthy conversation, Bluesky’s protocol developer Paul Frazee stated that Twitter was planned to be the “first client” of the AT Protocol, but that “Elon killed that straight dead” once he took over the firm. Frazee wrote that Twitter was supposed to be the “first client” of the AT Protocol. The lengthy acquisition had a chilling effect on the entire organization, and the arrangement was terminated almost immediately after Elon seized control of the company, according to Frazee. “It was certainly not going to take place. In addition, the concept of unmoderated places is completely absurd. For the purpose of allowing competing moderated places to exist, we established a common network. In the event that someone desired to create an unmoderated ATProto application, I suppose they could do so. I wish you the best of luck with the app stores, in addition to the regulators and the users.
Despite the fact that Dorsey took care not to openly criticize Musk, he was a little less enthused than he was when he stated that Musk would be the one to “extend the light of consciousness” by assuming control of Twitter. Dorsey made the observation that Musk takes “the other path” and generally complies with government requests to shut down accounts, whereas in the past he would fight against such requests. Despite the fact that Elon would fight in the manner in which he fights, which is something that I respect, Dorsey stated that he may very well be compromised.