Bluesky has bullied a Black intellectual off the platform, or the snake eats its tail

Funnily enough, they bullied Jack off a few months ago

Jack Dorsey has left the board of Bluesky. The unexpected announcement came after a question on Twitter if he was still on the board, which he answered with a simple 'no'. At that point, no announcement had been made yet, which came soon after. Dorsey says that he left the board because according to him, Bluesky 'went in the wrong direction'. He had not been actively involved with Bluesky for a while, as an indication of his noninvolvement, developer Paul Frazee said he has never met with him. Shortly after, Dorsey gave an extensive interview where he discussed his thoughts on Bluesky more. He has been more involved in Nostr, and in the recent shareholder letter of Block, where Dorsey is CEO, Block says they are working on integrating Nostr into more of their products (with TIDAL announcing a first small integration recently). For some more analysis:

• Why Jack Dorsey gave up on Bluesky – Will Oremus, The Washington Post

• Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn't Realize It – Mike Masnick, TechDirt.

Jack did get quite butthurt about how "common" people took away his chud paradise

But what happened is, people started seeing Bluesky as something to run to, away from Twitter. It's the thing that's not Twitter, and therefore it's great. And Bluesky saw this exodus of people from Twitter show up, and it was a very, very common crowd.

This tool was designed such that it had, you know, it was a base level protocol. It had a reference app on top. It was designed to be controlled by the people. I think the greatest idea — which we need — is an algorithm store, where you choose how you see all the conversations. But little by little, they started asking Jay and the team for moderation cowtools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it.

That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is 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.

And of course this is a great and honourable event

trans women are honored founders of the Bluesky community; the community that bullied Jack Dorsey off this site, & off the board that owns this site, which might be the greatest act of community service that has ever occurred.

!codecels remember to never let anyone capable of maintaining eye contact anywhere near your pet projects