Jack Dorsey, who co-founded the company of Twitter, has resigned from the board of Bluesky, an open, decentralized social media platform, of which he was one of the founders.
The company announced that Bluesky is looking for a new board member to fill the seat that Dorsey had resigned from. The company thanked Dorsey for providing not only finance but also spearheading the project.
Subsidized by Dorsey, Bluesky became one of the more formidable alternatives to mainstream social media platforms, such as Twitter/X, having managed to add two million users by November last year.
The website attributed its success to its use of 'atproto,' a decentralized protocol designed to support an open-source social network.
A response by Dorsey to queries by an X user as to whether he is still associated with Bluesky confirmed his exit from the board. "No," he simply replied.
With the transition, however, Bluesky just continued its growth and was thus rolling out various new features, such as mobile push notifications, user lists, email verification, and customized feed and thread selection.
The latter was a feature it rolled out not too long ago and which was a defining characteristic in decentralising social networking. The growth trajectory of Bluesky was further solidified by its $8 million fundraising accomplishments in the previous year and $13 million in 2022 when he was made a board member.
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