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In reply to the discussion: Swifties and Black Twitter have moved to Bluesky! [View all]blogslug
(38,730 posts)39. From their Company/About page
https://bsky.social/about/faq
tl;dr: Jack Dorsey gave Bluesky money to develop and hired Jay Graber to run it. When she let users in, those little scamps kept calling Jack an asshole and demanded features he didn't want like the ability to block trolls. So he got mad, quit the board and cut off funding. So Jay found her own funding.
What is the corporate structure of Bluesky?
Bluesky, the company, is a Public Benefit Corporation. It is owned by Jay Graber and the Bluesky team. The board consists of Jay Graber and Jeremie Miller, the inventor of Jabber/XMPP. Find past public statements we have made about Bluesky PBC's governance and structure in our original announcement, other posts on our blog, and on social media.
What is the relationship between Bluesky and Twitter?
Bluesky was initially a project kicked off by Jack Dorsey when he was CEO of Twitter in 2019. Jack chose Jay to lead Bluesky, and Twitter paid Bluesky services income to build an open social protocol for public conversation that it could someday become a client on. Bluesky has been an independent company since its formation in 2021.
In late 2022, Twitter chose to sever the service agreement with Bluesky, and Bluesky agreed. The Bluesky PBC has continued to pursue its original founding mission to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.
Bluesky, the company, is a Public Benefit Corporation. It is owned by Jay Graber and the Bluesky team. The board consists of Jay Graber and Jeremie Miller, the inventor of Jabber/XMPP. Find past public statements we have made about Bluesky PBC's governance and structure in our original announcement, other posts on our blog, and on social media.
What is the relationship between Bluesky and Twitter?
Bluesky was initially a project kicked off by Jack Dorsey when he was CEO of Twitter in 2019. Jack chose Jay to lead Bluesky, and Twitter paid Bluesky services income to build an open social protocol for public conversation that it could someday become a client on. Bluesky has been an independent company since its formation in 2021.
In late 2022, Twitter chose to sever the service agreement with Bluesky, and Bluesky agreed. The Bluesky PBC has continued to pursue its original founding mission to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.
tl;dr: Jack Dorsey gave Bluesky money to develop and hired Jay Graber to run it. When she let users in, those little scamps kept calling Jack an asshole and demanded features he didn't want like the ability to block trolls. So he got mad, quit the board and cut off funding. So Jay found her own funding.
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I don't do the social media thing but it would be nice if there was an alternative to push Eloon's play thing into the
tulipsandroses
Nov 2024
#2
If this keeps up, it will be. When Brazil banned twitter, they moved to Bluesky crazy fast and talked shit about Leon
Coexist
Nov 2024
#4
it's great because you can find starter packs to follow based on your interests,
Coexist
Nov 2024
#6
I have been on bluesky since summer and even then many people also were on bluesky as well as
Bev54
Nov 2024
#17