Jack Dorsey—Initiated and funded Bluesky project to develop decentralized social media protocol
Jack Dorsey announced in December 2019 that Twitter would fund an independent team (Bluesky) to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. Twitter provided $13 million in initial funding. The project aimed to give users more control over their data and reduce centralized platform power. Bluesky developed the AT Protocol and launched as an independent social network.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Internet & Web Freedom | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| User Autonomy | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.643 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (high ×1.5) × confidence (0.57)
Evidence (1 signal)
Dorsey announced Twitter would fund development of decentralized social media standard
Jack Dorsey tweeted that Twitter was funding a small independent team of up to five open-source architects to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter eventually becoming a client of this standard.