The co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorseyhas doubled down on his explicit and implicit criticism of Elon Musk, encouraging the college student tracking Musk’s private jet, Jack Sweeney, to keep posting on rival apps Bluesky and Nostr.
Dorsey, who has donated money to both platforms and sits on Bluesky’s board, had a brief exchange on Bluesky with the student about the aircraft tracking account. He @ElonJet originally started on Twitter, but was banned in December after Musk took over the site.
“What is your opinion of ElonJet?the college student asked Dorsey, who replied: “keep going. Send updates here and Nostr”.
Bluesky is a highly publicized Twitter-like app that is currently invite-only. It has more than 60,000 users, including representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Twitter comedy account Dril. The project originally started on Twitter while Dorsey was serving as CEO and is now run by Jay Graber.
Bluesky, as tempting as Twitter
In contact with Business InsiderSweeney told the website that he joined the app on April 30 and set up his personal and @ElonJet accounts: “It has that enticing feeling like Twitter”.
When setting up his account, someone had already claimed the username @elonjet, so Sweeney asked the person if he could hand it over to him, which he did: “I wanted it in good hands”.
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The college student also took Dorsey’s advice and joined Nostr on Saturday. Nostr, which stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays, is an open protocol that aims to create a censorship-resistant global social network.
Dorsey tweeted in December of last year that he had donated just over a quarter of a million dollars worth of Bitcoin to its anonymous founder, @fiatjaf.
Dorsey’s comments cement an apparent change of heart towards Elon Musk. The businessman had openly supported the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s takeover of Twitter through 2022 but, after massive layoffs and spotty reliability on the site, he now says the billionaire should not have made the deal.