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Be Wary of Bluesky
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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I mean.....yeah. The guy who created Bluesky is the same guy who created Twitter originally. What makes you think anything would be different? I'm honestly surprised they're even humoring the idea of decentralization.
Jack dorsey didn't create bluesky, and he had little effect on it.
He started the team for bluesky after reading protocols, not platforms. They were given a lot of independence from twitter (so much so that they were able to continue as a separate thing after twitter got musk-ed), but the goal was to eventually implement the protocol they come up with/choose on twitter.
He was on their board for a short period of time, but ragequit and deleted his account after they started moderating content.
I also find the idea the people working on bluesky are "holding back" the decentralisation efforts funny, considering they are making literally no money right now.
He also left Bluesky in 2024 after it didn't become the libertarian techbro wankfest he envisioned and was instead heavily populated by folks who didn't want to slob Elon's knob.