Revolution.Social Jack Dorsey on Selling Twitter, Leaving Bluesky & What He's Building Next
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Jul 17, 2025 
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of Twitter and Block, delves into his vision for a decentralized future for social media. He discusses the misguided trajectory of Twitter as a traditional tech company and passionately advocates for open protocols like Nostr. Dorsey reflects on his encouragement for Elon Musk to buy Twitter and addresses why he left Bluesky. He emphasizes the challenges of centralized AI firms and articulates Bitcoin's revolutionary potential in reshaping financial systems. Community engagement is key to evolving user-driven technology.
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Twitter as a Protocol, Not a Company
- Twitter’s early openness with its API treated it like a protocol allowing vast third-party innovation. - Corporate incentives later forced Twitter to shut this openness down to protect business interests.
Centralizing Discovery Encloses Commons
- Centralized social media platforms enclosed the commons by controlling discovery, a choke point of the internet. - This centralization created monopolies over user attention and stifled openness.
Decentralization vs Emerging AI Control
- New decentralizing technology can redistribute discovery of content, breaking choke points. - But AI centralization risks repeat of control and tampering via corporate incentives and hidden changes.
