Jack Dorsey wants to build a decentralized Twitter social network

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, is a fan of Bitcoin’s decentralized feature aimed at strengthening the blockchain network.

Now, he is planning to build a “decentralized standard for the social networking site,” with contributions from Protocol Labs, the maker of the anti-censorship file system InterPlanetary and the decentralized storage network Filecoin.

One of the goals when we announced bluesky was to develop a grounded understanding of relevant work that many talented people in the decentralization community have been doing. Today, we want to share an update on this. https://t.co/Yr1BwiVtv2

— bluesky (@bluesky) January 21, 2021

The development team behind Dorsey’s “Bluesky” initiative, which includes technologists and developers from Mastodon and other platforms, released a comprehensive ecosystem review on January 21.