Jack Dorsey commits $10 million to open-source social media after leaving Bluesky
The post Jack Dorsey commits $10 million to open-source social media after leaving Bluesky appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey has invested $10 million in experimental open-source projects that could impact the social media ecosystem. Dorsey’s online group, “and Other Stuff,” which was formed in May through a collaboration on Nostr, is behind the venture. Dorsey, Evan Henshaw-Plath, creator of the e-cash platform Cashu; Alex Gleason, former engineering head at Truth Social; and Jeff Gardner, the fourth employee at Inetercom, banded together to form the online group “and Other Stuff.” Henshaw explained that the online group has no intention of setting up a company but instead operates like a hacker community. Jack Dorsey supports open-source social media experiments The online group “and Other Stuff” met through a partnership on Nostr, an apolitical social networking protocol that defines a scalable architecture of clients and servers for spreading information freely. Nostr received Dorsey’s attention after stepping down from Bluesky’s board and Twitter when Elon Musk purchased it. The group, however, plans to experiment with other tools, including ActivityPub, a protocol that powers Mastodon, a decentralized application, and Cashu. Jack Dorsey, Block CEO, revealed that Twitter should never have been a company and that Bluesky appeared to be making the same mistakes he made at Twitter, leading to his departure. The collaboration “and Other Stuff” has backed the Shakespeare app, which was designed to build Nostr-based social applications with AI assistance. The group also supports Heynow, a voice note app built on Nostr and Chorus, the Nostr-based social community. Evan Henshaw-Plath noted that developments in AI-based coding have made this type of experimentation possible. He cited technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Django, and JSON and how they helped build the early version of the web. Henshaw planned a debut episode of Revolution on YouTube podcast with Dorsey as the key guest following the investment announcement. Dorsey…
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Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey has invested $10 million in experimental open-source projects that could impact the social media ecosystem. Dorsey’s online group, “and Other Stuff,” which was formed in May through a collaboration on Nostr, is behind the venture. Dorsey, Evan Henshaw-Plath, creator of the e-cash platform Cashu; Alex Gleason, former engineering head at Truth Social; and Jeff Gardner, the fourth employee at Inetercom, banded together to form the online group “and Other Stuff.” Henshaw explained that the online group has no intention of setting up a company but instead operates like a hacker community. Jack Dorsey supports open-source social media experiments The online group “and Other Stuff” met through a partnership on Nostr, an apolitical social networking protocol that defines a scalable architecture of clients and servers for spreading information freely. Nostr received Dorsey’s attention after stepping down from Bluesky’s board and Twitter when Elon Musk purchased it. The group, however, plans to experiment with other tools, including ActivityPub, a protocol that powers Mastodon, a decentralized application, and Cashu. Jack Dorsey, Block CEO, revealed that Twitter should never have been a company and that Bluesky appeared to be making the same mistakes he made at Twitter, leading to his departure. The collaboration “and Other Stuff” has backed the Shakespeare app, which was designed to build Nostr-based social applications with AI assistance. The group also supports Heynow, a voice note app built on Nostr and Chorus, the Nostr-based social community. Evan Henshaw-Plath noted that developments in AI-based coding have made this type of experimentation possible. He cited technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Django, and JSON and how they helped build the early version of the web. Henshaw planned a debut episode of Revolution on YouTube podcast with Dorsey as the key guest following the investment announcement. Dorsey…
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