Jack Dorsey pushes for decentralized Twitter alternative

With the interior probe led by Elon Musk identifying censorship-related issues connected Twitter, the societal platform’s former CEO Jack Dorsey has promoted the thought of a “free and unfastened protocol” for societal media. 

In a post, Dorsey highlighted immoderate imaginable solutions to the existent problems of the Twitter platform. According to the erstwhile Twitter CEO, this includes making it resilient from firm oregon authorities control, giving the close to region contented solely to the archetypal writer and implementing moderation done algorithmic choice. He explained that:

“I’m a beardown believer that immoderate contented produced by idiosyncratic for the net should beryllium imperishable until the archetypal writer chooses to delete it. It should beryllium ever disposable and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not beryllium possible.”

Dorsey believes that the Twitter level nether his enactment and the existent Twitter bash not conscionable the 3 principles that helium mentioned and blamed himself for not warring for the platform. He wrote:

“This is my responsibility alone, arsenic I wholly gave up pushing for them erstwhile an activistic entered our banal successful 2020. [...] I planned my exit astatine that infinitesimal knowing I was nary longer close for the company.”

Dorsey besides noted that the biggest mistake was focusing connected gathering tools to negociate the nationalist speech alternatively of creating ones that fto Twitter users negociate it for themselves. “This burdened the institution with excessively overmuch power,” helium added. With this, the institution was besides exposed to extracurricular unit according to the erstwhile CEO.

In a tweet, Dorsey besides shared the Github nexus to a censorship-resistant unfastened protocol that is presently being built. The task dubbed “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted” aims to alteration the instauration of decentralized societal networks based connected cryptographic keys and signatures.

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On Oct. 18, Dorsey besides announced caller developments regarding "Bluesky Social," a decentralized societal media task that was started successful 2019. With the platform, determination volition beryllium nary institution that tin determine what becomes published. Rather, determination volition beryllium a marketplace of companies deciding what to "carry to their audiences."