Jack Dorsey weighed in on people leaving one platform he founded (X, formerly Twitter) to join another he helped create (BlueSky).
“I think people are running away from X, rather than running to something on Bluesky,” the Twitter cofounder said in a recent episode of the “In Good Company” podcast when asked why Bluesky is growing so fast.
“That’s not a great way to build a product, unfortunately. We want people that are running to us for a particular thing that they couldn’t do before,” he added.
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“Bluesky has built something that I wanted it to build and I’m excited about, which is this algorithm store, being able to choose your own algorithms,” Dorsey said.
“That is a reason why people will run to it eventually, and I think why people run to these services eventually because they get more agency and more control — but it’s not something that people care about right now,” he added. “What they care about right now is not being in X for whatever personal reason.”
Jack Dorsey made off like a bandit creating a societal problem, then selling the problem to a terrible South African who turned it into an even bigger problem.
Can’t this guy just enjoy his obscene wealth and shut the fuck up already?
I worked for him at a different company. There was a time where I was proud to work for him.
It did not last long, I saw through his bullshit pretty quickly.
Guy with worst beard on the planet thinks we care about what he has to say at this point.
Wow, Jack, remember when you said elon was the only guy who could run Twitter? How’d that turn out?
He’s still around? And who asked him, anyway?
Someone looking for easy copy.
Right? I thought he had a tantrum over Bluesky users wanting more moderation and flounced off back twitter to try and cosy up with Musk
He kinda did, hence some careful wording in what he says.
Arsehole that he is, he’s still kind of half right. People are running away from Xitter. But there is a choice of options - Mastodon, Threads and Bluesky all of which have name recognition and if they’re going to Bluesky, thats a choice too, not just an escape from Xitter.
Mastodon has a higher barrier for entry, and those running from twitter are less likely to run straight to a facebook branded alternative.
Bluesky is just the easiest, least offensive alternative. That’s its biggest draw.
People really need to learn that there is no final plattform. Facebook and Whatsapp can not be the final answer to how we communicate for the next decades. There is no problem having more than one app for communication. And Twitter can not be the last short message plattform. We can not expect a platform to exist for 50 years without any change to the better or worst. If you are not changing every 10 years the infrastructure you are communicating over, and that was with a private corporation in the past, chances are, you’ve were getting taken advantage of. If you are unwilling to question the way you communicate with others and are satisfied to settle with a privat corp like Meta or X, you might want to rethink your standards and media competence judgement. Or not - and stay a product in a stable.
Damn businessinsider, what a scoop!
