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• @tomgara Tom Gara on threads

  Fascinating interview with Jack Dorsey.  He seems to have a lot of regrets about Twitter, although I'd have loved to see him reckon more directly with the way his people there were thrown under the bust and whether he could've fought harder for them https://www.piratewires.com/ .…

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on threads

  The thing that puzzles me about Jack Dorsey is how Square happened, and did so well.

• @renee.diresta Renee DiResta on threads

  Algorithmic feed curation -which in an age of middleware could be determined through a user selecting from a market (Bluesky currently offers this!)- is something he finds enjoyable on Twitter, but also weightings in a centralized algorithmic feed are “censorship”.  (The word has…

• @renee.diresta Renee DiResta on threads

  The thing that people need to internalize about the decentralized future is that it's immune to ref-working on the moderation front because there are essentially no refs to work.  This will come with real trade-offs.  It's more teneble, perhaps, in the long run — especially so lo…

• @renee.diresta Renee DiResta on threads

  This is an interesting interview with Dorsey in which he spills the 🫖 on his departure from Bluesky, which, for those who were on it early, was clearly a response to some moderation kerfuffles and ref-working early on.  Decentralized protocols are largely not subject to ref-worki…

• @karissabe Karissa on threads

  Jack saying that Bluesky is bad now and Nostr is better even though it's “weird and hard to use” feels very on-brand for Jack

• @rabble@mastodon.social @rabble@mastodon.social on mastodon

  There's a an interview which just got published for folks wanting to know more about Jack leaving the Bluesky board and his take on Bluesky, Twitter, Nostr, Elon, and Bitcoin.  —  He was responsible for Bluesky and twitter existing, and it's interesting to see why he left.  —  ht…

• @Green_Footballs@mastodon.social Charles Johnson on mastodon

  This interview is seriously whacked out, both the questions and Dorsey's bizarre answers.  —  He has “a strategy for ending censorship forever!” lol  —  https://www.piratewires.com/ ...

• @jay.bsky.team Jay on bluesky

  With all due respect to Jack for having the vision to invest in decentralized protocols, we've carried out the work in a way I don't think he fully understands.  Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter has never been, but the design of atproto allows it to feel familiar and…

• @jay.bsky.team Jay on bluesky

  There's a marketplace of algorithms.  It's open source — every line of code we write is public.  Moderation is composable.  Anyone can run any part of the system.  And yet it looks and feels like it could be Twitter because we built a protocol Twitter could run on without drastic…

• @jay.bsky.team Jay on bluesky

  Our early team had combined decades of experience building decentralized protocols: ssb (predecessor to nostr), dat, ipfs, cryptocurrencies.  We learned from the UX challenges we faced and built something that places decentralization “under the hood”.

• @jay.bsky.team Jay on bluesky

  Our design philosophy is “user choice with sensible defaults.”  This can be seen from usernames (get one from us, bring your own domain, or host your own identity), to moderation (use our app and get our defaults, stack your own on top, or use another app with different policies)…

• @karissabe.bsky.social Karissa Bell on bluesky

  Jack saying that Bluesky is bad now and Nostr is good bc it's “weird and hard to use” feels very on brand for him [embedded post]

• @elektrikat.bsky.social @elektrikat.bsky.social on bluesky

  “repeating all the mistakes we made” oh well then congratulations jay and co on your new $44B company!

• @richargh.bsky.social @richargh.bsky.social on bluesky

  Elon's gonna be so mad at this.

• @cloudhunter.co.uk @cloudhunter.co.uk on bluesky

  So Jack started to dislike Bluesky because they focused on user safety.  —  Figures.  —  Also this is such a fawning interview.  [embedded post]

• @gregpak.bsky.social Greg Pak on bluesky

  From this interview, it seems that his vision was a defederated system where the company has no liability for anything and his big grouse with Bluesky was that they decided to actually moderate.  —  Thrilled he's gone.  [embedded post]

• @niedermeyer.io E.W. Niedermeyer on bluesky

  I am Jack's complete lack of gorm [embedded post]

• @therealjimsanto.bsky.social @therealjimsanto.bsky.social on bluesky

  “[T]hey started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off.  And unfortunately they followed through with it.”  —  evidently Lord Of The Flies is his ideal of an open protocol  —  Jack Dorsey is an out-of-touch asshole.  [embedded post]

• @impemboganecue.bsky.social @impemboganecue.bsky.social on bluesky

  nostr is literally the stupidest website I have ever seen [embedded post]

• @tyschalter Ty Schalter on x

  Oh totally, the Taylor Swift deepfakes never would have gone viral if everyone could simply have compared her public crypto key to the one on the photos and found out they were inauthentic [image]

• @micsolana Mike Solana on x

  we did it joe [image]

• @micsolana Mike Solana on x

  why he left bluesky, how twitter went public and lost its way, jack's strategy for ending censorship forever, new background on the elon saga, and the death of social media as we know it. my interview with jack dorsey: https://www.piratewires.com/ ...

• @micsolana Mike Solana on x

  jack is one of the most enigmatic men in business today: relentlessly blamed for social media censorship, but one of the most committed anti-authoritarians building in tech. in a rare, far-reaching interview, he shares his perspective on the last ten years. proud of this one 🏴‍☠️…

• @brandongorrell @brandongorrell on x

  super normal reactions to the jack interview over on b*****sky [image]

• @averysmallghost Avery on x

  Jack Dorsey describing how Elon tweets the way a parent talks about a kindergartener's crayon drawings [image]

• @piratewires @piratewires on x

  Jack Dorsey raised eyebrows last week after revealing he resigned from Bluesky's board, and calling both X and Nostr “freedom technologies.” Today, @jack is in Pirate Wires, giving an exclusive long-form interview to @micsolana. In the conversation, Jack provides the backstory...…

• @metaversehell Sanjana Friedman on x

  “If you truly believe in censorship resistance and free speech, you have to use the technologies that actually enable that, and defend your rights.” A must-read in @PirateWires.

• @tyschalter Ty Schalter on x

  Here's what @jack and @micsolana still don't understand: It's SOCIAL media. No normal person will ever want to spend any time in a totally unmoderated public online space. You restrict what can be posted, who can post, or both, or you become 8chan. The end.