Jack Dorsey has posted 59 times per day on average on Nostr since January 2023, often talking about crypto and open source while criticizing Elon Musk
The Twitter co-founder has posted prolifically on two new social networks, Nostr and Bluesky, which he also backed financially.
Context & Ripple Effects
Jack Dorsey is running an unusual post-exit playbook: rather than building another platform, he is bankrolling and personally evangelizing two Twitter alternatives at once — posting 59 times per day on Nostr since January 2023 while also providing financial backing to Bluesky. The volume matters because it makes him one of the highest-cadence users on a network whose core pitch is that no company controls it.
The pattern fits his history: employees at Twitter and Square described his extreme hands-off management style as delegating decisions partly to pursue personal passions, and the new coverage shows that style carried into founder-investor mode. His target is consistent across the corpus — Elon Musk, whom he criticizes publicly even as Musk's own posting rate climbs.
First-order effects
- Nostr gets its most famous advocate acting as a full-time user, lending the protocol the kind of founder visibility that normally accrues only to companies — without Dorsey controlling it.
- Musk faces a sustained, high-volume public critic who is simultaneously funding rival networks, keeping X's ownership era under negative commentary from the platform's own co-founder.
Second-order effects
- A posting-rate rivalry takes shape: Musk's own output reached roughly 61 posts per day on X by mid-2024, effectively matching Dorsey's Nostr cadence — founder attention itself becoming the competitive currency between centralized and open-protocol social networks.
- Bluesky, which shared Dorsey's backing with Nostr, ultimately lost him: his later exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, faulting it for "repeating all the mistakes we made" at Twitter, forces Bluesky to prove decentralization credibility without its original patron.
Third-order effects
- If the pattern holds, influential tech founders increasingly act as patrons of open protocols rather than operators of platforms — Dorsey later formalized this with a $10M investment in "and Other Stuff", a nonprofit funding tools built on Nostr and ActivityPub — shifting social-network competition from product roadmaps to protocol ecosystems.
- The longer arc suggests founder celebrity becomes distribution for decentralized infrastructure: whether open-protocol networks can convert patron attention into durable user bases, independent of any single backer's enthusiasm, is the genuine open question.
The trend: Social-network builders are shifting from operating proprietary platforms to personally funding and evangelizing open protocols they do not control.