Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, May 6th, 2024, I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Jack Dorsey abandoned Twitter, and now he's abandoned blue sky as well.

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Blue Sky has confirmed Jack Dorsey's departure from its board of directors and says it is currently searching for a new board member,

quoting Tech Ranch.

On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X

about grants for open protocols

from his philanthropic Start Small Initiative.

This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the blue sky board and he responded with a terse no.

Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up posts asking him to explain his departure.

It's not clear when Dorsey left the board. As of

Sunday morning, Blue Sky's corporate FAQ still identified him as a board member. Later that afternoon,

the company published the following statement. We sincerely thank Jack for his help

funding and initiating the Blue Sky project. Today Blue Sky is thriving as an

open source social network running on AT Proto, the decentralized protocol we have built.

With Jack's departure, we are searching for a new board member

for the Blue Sky Public Benefit Company

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