Last December, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted plans to set up BlueSky, a non profit to build a decentralized social media protocol. At the Oslo Freedom Forum last week, he spoke a little about the concept which has yet to find a leader. His plan is for an open source social media protocol, of which Twitter would become a client.
Apart from being enamored with Bitcoin and blockchain, he sees blockchain as a tool to address the hacking risk of centralized identities. In 2014 the Saudi Arabian government allegedly infiltrated Twitter by corrupting two Twitter employees who handed over to the Saudis identifying information of pseudonymous users, some of whom were Saudi dissidents.
Talking about the topic during the Oslo Freedom Forum, Dorsey said: “The more we’re giving the individuals the keys, the safer this whole system is going to be.” Dorsey also spoke about how today’s platforms are partly in the content hosting business, and when the content is stored on a blockchain, that role goes away.
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