Jack Dorsey slams Bluesky for cloning ‘all mistakes we made’ at Twitter

In
a
recent
interview,
Twitter
founder
Jack
Dorsey
explained
his
decision
to
leave
Bluesky,
saying
the
project
ended
up
repeating
all
the
mistakes
that
were
made
at
Twitter.

American
entrepreneur

Jack
Dorsey
has
apparently
lost
his
faith
in

Bluesky,
a
decentralized
social
network
he
co-funded
for
$14
million
during
his
tenure
as
CEO
at
Twitter.

In
a
recent

interview
with
Pirate
Wires,

Jack
Dorsey
explained
why
he
left
Bluesky’s
board,
saying
he
was
disappointed
with
how
the
project
was
going.
He
felt
they
were
straying
from
the
original
idea
of
users
controlling
the
platform
and
adding
moderation
tools,
similar
to
Twitter’s
approach.

Dorsey
particularly
attributed
his
departure
to
Bluesky
CEO
Jay
Graber
and
her
team’s
compliance
with
user
demands
for
moderation
tools,
which
deviated
from
the
original
vision
of
a
platform
“controlled
by
the
people.”
At
that
moment
Dorsey
says
he
realized
that
Bluesky
was
“literally
repeating
all
the
mistakes
we
made
as
a
company.”

“This
is
not
a
protocol
that’s
truly
decentralized.
It’s
another
app.
It’s
another
app
that’s
just
kind
of
following
in
Twitter’s
footsteps,
but
for
a
different
part
of
the
population.
Everything
we
wanted
around
decentralization,
everything
we
wanted
in
terms
of
an
open
source
protocol,
suddenly
became
a
company
with
VCs
and
a
board.
That’s
not
what
I
wanted,
that’s
not
what
I
intended
to
help
create.”
Jack
Dorsey

Eventually,
Dorsey
says
he
decided
to
delete
his
Bluesky
account
and
join
Nostr,
a
decentralized
network
protocol
for
a
distributed
social
networking
system.
The
Twitter
founder
said
he
gave
a
“bunch
of
money”
to
the
Nostr
team,
though
there’s
“no
board,
no
company
behind
it,
no
funding.”

Among
us

Meanwhile,
Dorsey
continues
to
raise
concerns
about
centralized
messaging
protocols,
positioning
himself
as
an
intermediary
in
a
fireside
chat
between
Telegram
and
Signal
by
sharing
reports
highlighting
security
concerns
associated
with
both
platforms.

Recently,
Dorsey
shared
a
post
from

Signal
president
Meredith
Whittaker
on
X,
who
said
that
“Telegram
notoriously
insecure
and
routinely
cooperates
with
govs
behind
the
scenes
while
talking
a
big
game
about
speech
and
privacy.”

Whittaker’s
comments
came
after

Telegram
co-founder
Pavel
Durov
wrote
in
his

Telegram
channel
that
“an
alarming
number
of
important
people
I’ve
spoken
to
remarked
that
their
‘private’
Signal
messages
had
been
exploited
against
them
in
US
courts
or
media.”
Durov’s
statement
came
in
response
to
Dorsey’s

shared
post
on
X,
which
raised
concerns
about
Signal’s
insecurity,
particularly
questioning
the
messenger’s
encryption
methods.