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It sounds like Bluesky\u2019s most prominent backer is no longer on its board.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded<\/a> with a terse \u201cno.\u201d Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up posts asking him to explain his departure.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not clear when Dorsey left the board; as of Sunday morning, Bluesky\u2019s corporate FAQ<\/a> still identifies him as a board member. We\u2019ve reached out to the company for confirmation.<\/p>\n Dorsey first announced Bluesky<\/a> in 2019, back when he was still CEO of Twitter. He wrote that Twitter (now X) was \u201cfunding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.\u201d<\/p>\n Since then, Bluesky has become an independent public benefit corporation, led by CEO Jay Graber, with VC backing<\/a>, and it opened to the general public<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n Dorsey appears to have deleted his Bluesky account at some point last year, though his departure was only acknowledged at the time by a smattering of social media posts<\/a>. (He also deleted his Instagram account<\/a>.) Despite this, he remained the biggest name associated with the project<\/a>.<\/p>\n Back on X, Dorsey has had a pretty active weekend. In addition to dropping corporate news, he\u2019s also weighed in on the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar<\/a>, unfollowed nearly every other account<\/a>, and posted<\/a>, \u201cdon\u2019t depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (you\u2019re on one)\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n