If Jack Dorsey & Elon Musk (who are friends) merely wanted to run a MAGA site full of fascists, they could have just bought Parler & saved themselves approx 43.999 billion dollars.
What they wanted was to cripple the sad remnants of investigative journalism, and the political left, which successfully used Twitter for political organizing, activism & messaging throughout the Trump regime.
Why would anyone who cares about either of these things go to Jack's #Bluesky project.
Amid rumors he was being forced out as Twitter CEO (for the 2nd time), Dorsey reached out to Musk, & together they planned his takeover, which Dorsey backed to the tune of $1 billion in shares. Jack said he planned this exit starting in 2020, which is also when he started publicly making friends with Musk.
He is one of the biggest owners of Twitter.
As Dave Troy noted in Oct 2022: They're collaborators, not competitors.
Attached: 4 images @[email protected] June 11, 2022: Jack: "Twitter Inc could also use [Bluesky] as foundation." "According to the filing, Dorsey and Musk “may be deemed to have formed a group” for the purposes of part of the filing, a designation that indicates the pair were working together on the buyout." Oct. 18, 2022: Q: You've talked about a protocol for Twitter...is this along those lines? jack @jack: yes https://www.ft.com/content/f65414c4-f3e4-4bff-9af0-4960f922ce1d
A Jack Dorsey owned protocol or platform will never, *ever* be a safe space for Democratic or progressive organizing, or even a safe gathering space for any marginalized community (which includes women).
It's actually a big deal to throw away this moment - an opening of possibility to meaningfully disrupt the cycle of Enshittification & to build a vastly more democratic social media space.
Musk won't prevail in any misappropriation claims against #Meta for #Threads because he hasn't tried to enforce against #Bluesky, which directly competes with Twitter, hired Twitter employees & all 3 of its Board members worked at Twitter. BS's clearly been using information acquired at Twitter to accelerate its development. Its attraction to users is b/c it's a copycat clone of Twitter - but Musk has never made a peep about it. And never will.
Tells you something very important about Bluesky
Journalists shouldn't be spreading these kinds of unsourced rumors, without seeing all the contracts & incorporation documents from Bluesky entities (there are likely more than just the one PBLLP).
Also, people are simultaneously spreading unsourced (& frankly totally BS) rumors that there is ZERO relationship between Musk & Dorsey's Twitter, & Dorsey's Bluesky. So which is it?
Erin Conroy
Dieu