Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, not just vibe coding new social apps, Bitnish and Sun’s DayHe invested 10 million dollars for financing experimental open source projects and other means that can change the social media view.

These efforts are fun through an online collective “and other items“In May, the first employee of Twitter, which includes the team dorsey, Evan Henshaw-Plath; “Calle,” the creator of the e-Cash platform CashboxOpen Alex Gleason, past engineering In reality social; and Jeff Gardnerthe fourth employee in the intercom.

The group was first met with cooperation OurAn open, “political” social network protocol drawn by Dorsey Sale on Twitter to Elon Musk and her Social network landing from Bluesky’s board. However, the team will also test with other instruments, as a functional, not centralized application, not centralized applications, as well as the protocol that strengthens Cashu.

In recent years there are dorsey was more critical Said how social media platforms are developing Twitter had to have no company and it seemed like Bluesky to repeat the mistakes Has done on Twitter and others.

As a result, the team in “and other items” is determined not to establish a company, but instead of the “Society of Hacks”, Henshaw-plath explains. Together, they are working to create technologies that can include new consumer social apps Difoloper tools or various experiments such as librarieswould allow others to make applications for themselves.

For example, the team is behind an application called ShakespeareWho is like Application-Construction Platform CuteHowever, with the help of AI specifically, to set up Nostr-based social applications.

The group is also behind Heynowa sound recording application based on nostr; Cashu walletOpen especially messenger White noiseOpen and nostr-based public public + chorusIn addition to applications, Dorsey has already released.

Developments in AI-based coding helped the previous version of technologies such as Henshaw-plath, Django and JSAN, Django and JSANs to fuel the previous version of the dubbed Web 2.0.

Related to these efforts, Henshaw-Plath sat with Dorsey for the debut episode of the new podcast, Revolution. @rabble with. (Henshaw-plath’s handle in X @rabble.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fm8yjsuxes

Dorsey lives in New Zealand because he lives in Costa Rica and Henshaw-Plath, and two people met in Hackathon in Switzerland. In the approximately, the episode of Dorsey becomes the history of Twitter, as well as the philosophies of social media, and how it can be fixed.

“It took me a lot of time to make me realist … I didn’t really put it in words until the second director returned. But it’s hard for something [Twitter] To be a company, there is a corporate encouragement when you want to be a protocol. lawyer Over the advertisements of the advertisements with their concerns about the lack of X and the absence of controversial comments.

Although Dorsey realizes that advertisers are correct for work and Twitter for stock price, it was “something wrong for the Internet.”

“They are just about money – your money – your money – your money and income is completely low.” “So [Twitter] It was an open protocol, if it was a really open project, you can set up a job on top of it and build a very healthy job on it. “

Dorsey made an effort to build a clear protocol inside Twitter to be bluesky lately. However, Dorsey believes that Bluesky faces the same challenges as traditional social media due to the structure – it is funded by VCS as other beginnings. Already, it was necessary Summer to government wishes and Faces moderation problemsIt is pointing.

“I think [Bluesky CEO] Jay [Graber] Great. I think the team is great, “he said.” This is where I want to push my energy … more corporate directions, “Dorsey adds.

Journalists, including Twitter Taylor and Taylor Lorenz, including journalists, Kara Swisher and Taylor Lorenz, including Henshaw-Plath, Kara Swisher and Taylor Lorenz, including Henshaw-Lorenz, including Taylor Lorenz, including Taylor Lorenz, including Joel Roth, SPPACK COO TONY STUBBLBINE Cory Doctoralist (Who pointed to the term “intelligence“Describe the status of most of the current website) and the famous incorrect information researcher Renée Deresta.

The team “and other items“It also works on one Social Media “Rights,“Henshaw-plath says what social media platforms are It is necessary to provide In areas such as privacy, security, interaction, transparency, identity, self-government and transportation.

These are believed, Bluesky and others will help the platforms, including, despite any external pressure, they will be responsible for users.

Dorsey’s initial investment raised a new non-profit level and worked and worked in some initial iOS applications. Meanwhile, others contribute to android versions, developer tools and time to build different social media experiences.

More things are still working, Henshaw-plath says.

“There are still things we are not ready to talk, this will be very excited,” he said.