Jack Dorsey has posted an average of 59 times per day on Nostr since January 31, 2023, often talking about crypto and open source while criticizing Elon Musk
Context & Ripple Effects
Dorsey's Nostr habit is the end point of a long exit from running social platforms: he had already been reported as delegating most major decisions at Twitter and Square (extreme hands-off management), was part of the cohort of founders growing tired of managing their platforms, and formally left Twitter's board in May 2022 as Elon Musk's takeover loomed.
Since late January 2023 he has redirected that energy into Nostr — roughly 59 posts a day about crypto and open source, with frequent criticism of Musk. The symmetry is notable because Musk has become a prolific poster himself, first during the November 2022 acquisition chaos (on pace for over 750 tweets that month) and later at an even higher sustained rate on X.
First-order effects
- Nostr gets its highest-profile evangelist: a Twitter founder posting dozens of times daily lends the young protocol credibility and attention it could not buy, concentrated specifically on crypto and open-source themes.
- Musk now faces public criticism from Twitter's co-founder on a rival, decentralized network rather than inside the company Dorsey once ran.
Second-order effects
- The two founders are effectively competing as posters, not operators — Musk's own volume climbing toward 61 posts per day on X by mid-2024 means both men treat personal posting output as a product-adjacent activity, keeping attention on the protocol-versus-platform question.
Third-order effects
- If the pattern holds, prominent founders increasingly abandon operating roles at the platforms they built in favor of championing open protocols they cannot control — shifting influence in social media from ownership and moderation decisions to advocacy, code, and crypto-aligned funding.
The trend: Social-media founders are converting themselves from platform executives into high-volume advocates for decentralized alternatives, with personal posting cadence replacing corporate control as their main lever.