You also have to remember that Jack Dorsey was behind the helm during the suppression, a form of bias, of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Now, Jack is at Bluesky. So, it wouldn't be a reach to say that the culture of Bluesky isn't biased, either.
Jack isn't at Bluesky anymore. It's ran by Jay Graber. Jack passed the torched to her in 2024.
Both platforms have similar roots, with Bluesky initially emerging out of a Twitter research initiative in 2019. But since founder Jack Dorsey
stepped away from the venture, Bluesky has forged its own path under new management.
Jack Dorsey’s History With Bluesky
Back when Dorsey was still Twitter’s CEO, the company funded a small team of developers to build “an open and decentralized standard for social media.”
The technology that emerged from that project, AT Protocol, underpins Bluesky, which is the most well-known implementation of the open standard today.
In 2021, members of the Bluesky team set up a public benefit corporation independent of Twitter. And after
Elon Musk acquired the larger company in 2022, their formal separation was complete.
In his post-Twitter era, Dorsey initially remained committed to Bluesky, which he appeared to favor over Musk’s X.
However, earlier this year, Dorsey walked away from the company’s board and offered a full-throated endorsement of X.
Who Is Jay Graber?
When Bluesky was first set up as an independent entity, Twitter’s management appointed Jay Graber as its CEO.
“She seemed great, and we decided to fund her,” Dorsey said in an
interview this year. Around that time, he was also planning his exit from Twitter, so when Musk made an offer for the platform, he said he funded Bluesky with $14 million to ensure it could continue its work.
According to its website, Bluesky, “is owned by Jay Graber and the Bluesky team.” Alongside Graber, Jeremie Miller, Mike Masnick and Kinjal Shah also sit on the board.
Originally, Dorsey also sat on the board. However disagreements over the company’s direction would ultimately spur his departure:
“In Jay’s case, she decided she wanted to set up a completely different entity, a B Corp. That accelerated even more when Elon made the acquisition offer, and it very quickly turned into more of a survival thing, where she felt she needed to build a company, and build a model around it, get VCs into it, get a board, issue stock, and all these things.”
At that point, Dorsey said he became unhappy with the direction Bluesky was going in. Rather than focusing on an open-source protocol that Twitter and other platforms could utilize, under Graber, he suggested, Bluesky was positioned as a rival social platform in and of itself.
Bluesky does lean a certain way compared to Twitter and it isn't so active compared to other platforms. They also claim that ads will never hit the platform, but I don't believe that. They've received $15 million in seed funding, so they will eventually need to make those investors happy. Their servers aren't that equipped to handle their growth either, so they will need to find a way to sustain their growth in the long run.
