Jack Dorsey is launching a new social network

Meh, Jack is the asshole that started all of this

Hmmm.... sounds too good to be true

He used to be so hot 😍

I want Dorsey's balls in my mouth.

I want Dorsey's balls in a long Lysol bath first.

One-hit wonder attempting the "next big thing".

Dear Jack:

Stop with the stupid social networks already and just concentrate on your main money maker, Block/Square.

He’s got!

Agree, R3. I wish he would clean up.

I am very interested in this new endeavor of his. Twitter needed an overhaul, anyway. Not a Weaselface Musk version but a sprucing-up. Hopefully he gets it up and running, soon.

Twitter needs to die. Honestly, all social media can die except forums and Reddit (for my nerdy interests). Twitter and Facebook have caused way too much damage to society and are irredeemable.

Twitter is amazing for news. I don't want it to die.

I missed Twitter when it was just news updates and press releases. At one point it just taken over by trolls, bots, crazy political pundits and insane stans. Maybe they can launch a new version for grown ass adults who don't want drama.

Yeah, I would move to a replacement for sure if other people moved too since I don't like Musk but twitter is quite easy to use if you select the right accounts to follow. I don't bother with reading comments or making general searches on the whole.

My god, why don't people get off their pudding-butts and go out and socialize and meet people? You can walk through neighborhoods and not see a soul.

R14 I use Twitter for news and information, not socializing.

It's like hearing about a new oil rig fire.

He's a douche, but I so hope he succeeds. You will absolutely see people telling Musk to fuck off and leaving in droves. Let MAGAts get their wish of no libs on Twitter...because that's clearly why Gab, Parler, etc succeeded.

Funny he's been very open about doing the silent visapanna meditation refrained him from talking for 10 days which was very much anti-twitter behavior.

^ He's fucking rich and if there's one thing I've learned it's impossible for billionaires to keep their fucking yaps shut 😠

The only positive is sticking it to Musk. If Jack succeeds Musk will have spent $44 billion for air and that makes me sleep well 😴💤

[quote] One-hit wonder attempting the "next big thing".

Hardly. He is also the co-founder of Square (Block) with 'adjacent' businesses like Cash App, Afterpay, Weebly and Tidal.

I commend you.

DataLounge is the only true social network

^ " I do all my pointless bitching on DataLounge or I don't bitch at all "

"decentralized social network"

it's where you find the worst extremists

Once the Pigs lose both the Senate and the House come the mid-terms, Elon Muskovite will lose big $$$. Fuck his Assperger Asshole. Big fun cumming!

Ya add China’s utter final COVID-economic crash Tesla China-dick sucking demise and you will bear the world’s biggest hemmoroid! Fun times soon ahead.

You heard it here first.

^ Yeah, I heard it, but I sure as hell don't understand it 🙄

Yeah, yeah…a digital RED SQUARE fuck-for-all as opposed to digital town square! HA! HA! No one will give a shit once the DEMS sweep and Shitler is finally rendered as the pure shit that he is. I’m cumming already!

Ya heard it here first.

I thought the Republicans are very likely to win the House? Although admittedly nobody is really sure whether to trust the polls this year.

"Ya heard it here first"

... and last

I would like to Star Trek transport Muskovite’s ass to Mars licketty split to document him drinking his piss and eating his shit-grown potatoes! He can listen to Thelma Houston’s I Will Survive! the whole while. I would pay anything to watch it in 3-D IMAX!!! I will pay for popcorn, caviar and Dom Perignon as well. Good times!

Dorsey and Musk are very similar.

Similar views - that is.

[quote]He used to be so hot 😍

Cut or uncut?

^ I wish I knew firsthand ☹️

LOL - it's basically an aggregator that ultimately will be WORSE than twitter because it will provide exposure to stuff that now requires you to seek actively. Each individual app moderates itself on their platform.

Think of it this way. Imagine being on Twitter, but now also getting feeds from Parler or other right wing maga-loving idiocy. Another way to think about it is that the developers/owners get all the benefits of multiple smaller versions of twitter without having any of that pesky responsibility for monitoring what people are saying and doing:

[quote]Some of these goals include letting applications customize their system of moderation, making applications responsible for compliance and takedown requests, and preventing virality algorithms from reinforcing controversy and moral outrage. The working group did not have a common consensus towards these goals, so Twitter decided to field individual proposals, which ranged from reinforcing existing standards to endorsing standard interoperability, letting usage data decide where to invest.

[quote]Dorsey and Musk are very similar.

Yet I have no interest in asking "cut/uncut" about Musk.

@r35, Thanks for your input, Elon 🙄

Our culture is dominated by autismy assholes. Trump. Kanye. The social media fucks. I’m starting to wonder about madonna. She seems kinda dead eyed and socially retarded. And not funny. Autismys can’t do comedy.

Why would you ask about Dorsey? He doesn't bathe.

Here's a link for the app. It's not live yet but you can join their waitlist. I deleted my rarely-used Twitter account yesterday and signed up for BlueSky.

Is the "blue" part supposed to mean it is supposed to be for blue state voters?

As with most of the internet, Twitter's highes and best use is for pron.

[quote]@[R35], Thanks for your input, Elon 🙄

I never said that it's worth staying on Twitter, moron.

I'm merely pointing out that Bluesky will likely be as bad or worse when it comes to vile content.

Frankly, I've been patiently waiting for Twitter to go the way of Myspace. I haven't yet figured out why other than neither Snapchat nor Tiktok appear to fill the void it would leave well enough. What we actually need is a jump in technology that makes Twitter useless. We almost got there with Tiktok once higher quality cameras on phones became ubiquitious.

I wish TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter would all go away along with all the "influencers" that believe their opinions are worthwhile enough to warrant getting paid for them...(unlike here on DL where our opinions are FREE and worth what we're paid for them).

TikTok=China sucking. China created TikTok to infiltrate Western social media. Evil. Like COVID.

R43 I'm fairly sure it's because of all the journalists and politicians on twitter. TikTok is too shallow. Twitter is more about information.

Dorsey is not much different than Musk, they are all libertarian tech bros who love money and hate people. The issue is probably because twitter moderation is centralized, and the tech bros are getting blamed for the chaos that they want to sow anyway. They want to decentralize it, wash their hands and not have it be their problem. There is alway some loser on any side, any interest, who lives in a basement who will anoint themselves as the moderator and do this shit for free. So basically, this sounds like reddit moderation, but for tweets? It may be better for the masses I guess to search for their own bigoted trash rather than have it forced on them by algorithm.

[quote]Cut or uncut/

Most white Americans are circumcised, so most likely that Jack Dorsey is cut.

It's not like Europe where the white majority are uncut.

Bluesky. He's favorite color was always blue.

If he wants to Musk buttfuck Musk, let the games begin. I luv seeing rats eat their own.

@r43, Thanks for your follow-up, Elon. Now you've said the same thing twice 😏

[quote] As with most of the internet, Twitter's highes and best use is for pron.

That will be an off-shoot app, 'BlueBalls'.

I think Jack Dorsey needs to take his billions and fade away - he’s done enough. I hope people say “no” to his new social media platform.

Fuck of Musk dick sucker.

And no…you don’t think.

Jack Dorsey?! Jack Nasty!!

[quote]As with most of the internet, Twitter's highes and best use is for pron.

I'm curious to know whether Elon will do anything about the millions of porn Twitter feeds (including gay porn feeds). At least some of those conservatives he's cozying up to are bound to complain.

I find him Hot

twitter's leftists have decided to leave for tribel social instead

I totally get Twitter for news. I use it for that.

But I never, ever "explore" Twitter. I couldn't care less what some rando thinks about anything.

Why don't we all just go there for the NYT, to see the score on the game, or to read about movie/TV/music news?

Let the trolls talk themselves into oblivion elsewhere.

^ I don't get that either. Some individual says something stupid, and causes an outrage if it's just extreme enough. Some want from the same fame cake and post something even more stupid. It's the same trolls like here on DL, just with a name. Why would I venture out to look for this? It's not helpful. Those posts only show you the radical opinions; they don't get you a pulse of what the average crowd thinks. (Only Nextdoor is worse...)

And for news... well, I go to news sites for that.

I like Twitter for various European news outlets and other stuff I don’t want to go searching for.

Plus, I like the animal pictures and the funny, dumb shit that people post. I’m a simple person.

With that flaccid prick taking over, the trolls and MAGAts have been flooding the place like crazy. I spend more time blocking their trash than I do anything else.

That white trash cabal have parler, “truth”social and the chans/kuns to spew their disgusting bile. But they can’t deal with staying in the cesspools they created. No. They gave to try and force their putrid bullshit on everyone else.

[quote]I'm merely pointing out that Bluesky will likely be as bad or worse when it comes to vile content.

The idea of Bluesky already exists: it's called Mastadon. It's been around for a long time. It's just a bit confusing for new people to use it.

With Bluesky as the app (which I'm sure they'll make easy to use to avoid one of the issues with Mastadon) and the AT Protocol being the thing that connects people together, a lot like Mastadon, you'll be able to choose what server you link to and each server will have its own rules. So join one with no bots, no politics, no nudity, no ... etc. It's up to you.

And if a service that you wouldn't want to see supports the protocol, like Parler ... you simply don't join it. If they can somehow get insta, tiktok, etc on board I'm sure it will work as an aggregator that way but you don't have to.

Like Mastadon there will likely be a "main" server or two and then other ones people can leave and join. After a few months, a few primary servers will emerge and there will no doubt be one the gays end up on that has the rules I like and that is the one I'm sure most of us will be on. If there's a need for it, it will be created.

[quote]I wish TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter would all go away along with all the "influencers" that believe their opinions are worthwhile enough to warrant getting paid for them...(unlike here on DL where our opinions are FREE and worth what we're paid for them).

Okay the last line made me laugh. We sure do have some opinions here.

Although, I'd say influencers have always been around. Instead of the television they're on your internet. Susan Powter telling you to "STOP THE INSANITY!" by motivational speaking you to fitness and health. Cindy Crawford welcoming you to the "HOUSE OF STYLE!" with guests and segments from Todd Oldham telling you what to wear. Siskel and Ebert telling you what movies you should watch. All of that stuff just moved to the internet with people who are, occasionally less qualified, to talk about it. (Although sometimes they are pretty damn well qualified and figured they could make more money just being on the internet ... like that hot Russian Doctor who spends more time recording Youtube videos and running around shirtless on Insta than actually working.)

These billionaire guys are cray on another level. Article on what they really want to do

Dorsey can plow me.

Billionaire tech bros are the scum of the earth. Grade school nerds who want revenge on everybody.

They were assholes even then^.

The point here is that Twitter is launching Blue Sky. It's not really a competitor.

And when he tires of Bluesky, which billionaire asshole will he sell that to?

Sounds too good to be true. This either won't see the light of day, or it will flop.

Putin R68. For real.

[quote]Dorsey can plow me.

Elon not so much.

It’s not a rival, it’s to work with twitter, not against.

Have any social media platforms been dethroned after the fall of MySpace? Maybe Tumblr, but that was corporate attempted suicide. It seems like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit and now TikTok all own their main function and even when they try to compete with other by copying another platform's main function, it doesn't change the dominance of the original platform. I think any Twitter alternative will only be a niche player.

MySpace was the last of its breed, it's really akin to LiveJournal, Blogspot and other HTML-based social networks. Facebook had a different aka simplified pre-set format and more up-to-date server that gave it a leg up. MySpace unfortunately was never going to last with its antiquated server and it made attempts at copying Facebook and YouTube but simply lacked the resources to fully integrate (if they did that official overhaul, all of the user data would have been deleted because of needing to use a different server). A lot of MySpace's niche (music, writers and artists) transferred to Tumblr for a while. TikTok actually reminds me a lot MySpace combined with early pre-Google YouTube and pre-2018 Tumblr, the attention-seeking subcultural teens, stupid challenges and the aspiring music artists and craft sellers.

Facebook, Tumblr and SnapChat all declined but are still used. Reddit's format is a library of forums, so it will stick. YouTube has too much high-quality user content, movies and music to ever go away. Instagram's simplicity of just photos is extremely appealing to people who want no drama. Twitter became the site of political pundits, trolls, geeks, sex workers and many Tumblr weirdos. There's also Twitch for gamers.

[quote]TikTok actually reminds me a lot MySpace combined with early pre-Google YouTube and pre-2018 Tumblr

I thought TikTok was basically a retread of Vine.

I’m using Tribel for now, which is in its early stages and not very good, but if we don’t support some other place, Elon is going to get rewarded for turning Twitter into another Truth Social.

The use of the N word on Twitter has gone up 500% in a couple days, since he owned it. I went on there and it was inundated with fascists gleefully celebrating the attack on Paul Pelosi and insisting Pelosi was a drunk who picked up a gay man on some website like Tinder and they were both in their underwear, and somehow both had hammers and were having some kind of hammer duel sex, when a third party called in a wellness check. None of that is true according to the reports, but they don’t care and no one can shut them down, because Elon allows hate speech now. I knew fascists were terrible people, but the blatant rumor mongering by seriously disturbed, violent people is horrifying.

I have no idea if that guy was really in his underwear, but no one seems to be even thinking, when someone plans a very bloody murder, they sometimes take off their clothes to avoid publicly wearing bloody clothes. If this guy had succeeded in killing Pelosi, he would have been covered in blood. And he may have been. Or worse, the guy was expecting to find Nancy Pelosi, and probably intended to rape her and then kill her. The 1/6 terrorists talked about raping female members of Congress.

The reality is bad enough. Terrorist breaks into house and attacks 82 year old man in the middle of the night with the intention of attacking his wife with a hammer and killing her, who luckily wasn’t there.

^ Would Elon be Ok with fantasy scenarios of him being attacked with a hammer in some sort of Gay sex dual? I mean free speech, right? 🤔

[quote] Over the last 48 hours, we’ve seen a small number of accounts post a ton of Tweets that include slurs and other derogatory terms. To give you a sense of scale: More than 50,000 Tweets repeatedly using a particular slur came from just 300 accounts. Nearly all of these accounts are inauthentic. We’ve taken action to ban the users involved in this trolling campaign — and are going to continue working to address this in the days to come to make Twitter safe and welcoming for everyone.

--Yoel Roth, Twitter's Head of Safety & Integrity at around midnight EDT on Saturday night/Sunday morning

@r77, *duel*

@r78, Yeah, right, until Elon gets his bearings and fires this guy 🙄

[quote]The point here is that Twitter is launching Blue Sky. It's not really a competitor.

Read an article. This isn't entirely correct.

Blue Sky is the name of the project.

AT Protocol is the name of the thing that makes it work with other social networks.

They then created an app called Blue Sky after the name of the project and that is what is launching.

Twitter originally funded Blue Sky when Jack was still head of it then he broke it off into its own independent project that has its own staff and nothing to do with Twitter. Jack wasn't stupid. They removed him as head of Twitter once after it went public. They did again after he created this project.

He regretted making Twitter, especially after it went public, and has said that more than once.

Yes, the app is a competitor to Twitter that could also potentially work with it or any other social network. The protocol is not.

Jack Dorsey, Musk - both share the same philosophy as Putin.

Dorsey has defended Musk the entire time. Musk wanted twitter the whole time. He didn’t overspend, not at all.

R81, I still don't understand what the relationship is between Blue Sky and Twitter today. I thought it was a different company. The articles I read went out of their way to point out that Blue Sky is independent but it sounds like it's still part of Twitter. If that's the case, if Blue Sky ends up creating something that competes with Twitter, then what would stop Twitter from dismantling it?

It’s not a competition^.!

Stay away from all of it... Problem solved

[quote] It seems like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit and now TikTok all own their main function [...], it doesn't change the dominance of the original platform. I think any Twitter alternative will only be a niche player.

I think the key factor for that is simplicity. If you want tweets you prefer to have them all in one platform. You don't want to have to check five platforms to see all the tweets you are interested in. You just want one. Same with social profiles, mini videos etc. But of course every social website tries to prevent that from happening. Same with streaming. Wouldn't it be nice to have content of all your streaming services in one cohesive interface?

[quote]If that's the case, if Blue Sky ends up creating something that competes with Twitter, then what would stop Twitter from dismantling it?

R84, The only real defense he has is that

1. The protocol was meant to work with Twitter and any social platform, it just happens to have its own BlueSky server as well.

2. Elon knew about it because Jack discussed it with him and tweeted about it prior to Elon buying Twitter.

Jack started the project in response to having to boot Trump off of Twitter. He didn't feel like that should have been "Twitter's" decision. He made it with Twitter initially to use the protocol to tap into Twitter's userbase and ... nefariously ... to eliminate moderation of Twitter by Twitter and government interference. He also (correctly) doesn't believe Twitter should be able to mine and own your data to pass on to advertisers. So the only way to do that is to make everyone responsible for own content.

What will likely happen is:

Your username will be something like TheVulture@bluesky, and everything involving your profile will be attached to it.

There will be a main server you can connect to at BlueSky. You can use the app to connect to other services like Twitter, Facebook, Insta, etc. under that username if they use the AT Protocol.

Then TV networks, businesses, colleges, individuals, etc. can all have their own servers you can connect to.

Those servers are responsible for their own content & you are responsible for your own profile because it's yours.

The dude created email again. (Honestly.)

[quote]Have any social media platforms been dethroned after the fall of MySpace? ... It seems like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit and now TikTok all own their main function [...], it doesn't change the dominance of the original platform.

TikTok is a replacement for Vine which happened post Myspace. The creator of Vine tried to create Vine 2.0 but he waited too long. TikTok took over. I'd also add Twitch to that list. It has a unique function for streamers. Also, BeReal which is something like a Instagram/Snapchat with the gimmick of it telling you when it wants you to post.

All of those services stay on top by mirroring each other. Youtube is pushing "Shorts" which is their answer to TikTok. All the other services have something like TikTok built in now. Also early on in those services they did often work together. Instagram shut off Twitter years ago. Instagram can do destructible messages like Snapchat.

This old troglodyte hates TikTok. God. The fucking noise! Shitty, loud music with screaming kids for 20 seconds at a time. So fucking annoying.

No wonder nobody reads nowadays. Takes too much thought and time when you’re used to screaming, incoherent shit on TikTok.

I’d never join a site called “Tribel.” That’s just offensive. Misspelled, culture appropriating, and a security risk.

Dorsey is one of the wealth knows best crowd, so trust nothing he says or does.

Will this take down Zuckerbitch?

Speaking of Jack Dorsey, what's up with him? He's 45 and never married, or did I miss something? Are we assuming he's autistic or something and that's why he's never in a relationship?

He’s not pro-gay, if that’s what you’re insinuating.

It's not a Gay or straight thing, I'm pretty sure Jack has never found another human worthy of his Jackness 😂

Why must everyone be in a relationship? Maybe some people just realize they aren't cut out for it.

Elon is Jack's new boo.

Elon Musk is a sociopath who thinks he is just autistic. His grandfather was a proponent of Technocracy in Canada. Elon’s goal is for the algorithm and AI to make decisions for the population. He wants the people and democratic government to take a backseat, if the AI thinks some people (particularly the poors) are expendable for the common good, then so be it. Same for Dorsey, they are buddies and they have the same philosophy. Dorsey wants humans to wash their hands off “moderating” social media, he made the blueprint for Bluesky when he was forced to get rid of trump on twittr. They both want the chaos to remove governments and have the computer take the lead. So silly, but they believe it.

They’ve always been “boo’s”. Peter Thiel too.

Jack Dorsey is a huge supporter of Tulsi Gabbard, I think he’s one of those “libertarians”, who are like Steve Bannon, they are hold extreme views.

*they hold

I do agree with the idea that Dorsey was pressured into removing Trump. I don’t think it’s something he willfully wanted to do.

Social media needs fixing, but I don't know if Jack and Elon are suitable for the job.

Social media algorithm needs to be killed off. I long for the days when all we complained about was post after post of somebody’s ugly kids.

Jack Dorsey's relationship with Musk must be pretty good because I read in the NYT that Dorsey rolled over all is Twitter stock into Musk's nonpublic Twitter company. Dorsey was due almost $1 billion for his shares, but he rolled it over into the new Twitter company and is now an investor along with Musk and some others. Musk is the majority investor who controls everything.

How antagonistic could they be in this scenario even if Dorsey is developing another social media app?

Is this invite only for the rich and famous?

R38 Autism troll strikes again. ZZZZZ. There is nothing autistic about Trump.

[quote] Jack Dorsey's relationship with Musk must be pretty good because I read in the NYT that Dorsey rolled over all is Twitter stock into Musk's nonpublic Twitter company.

The above comment about Musk's and Dorsey's relationship was probably true in November of 2022 when that comment was posted.

But look at them now:

[quote] Jack Dorsey criticizes Elon Musk’s leadership at Twitter: ‘It all went south’

[quote] Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey openly criticized Elon Musk’s leadership of the company in a series of social media posts Friday, writing that “it all went south” and Musk “should have walked away” from the acquisition.

[quote] Users of Bluesky, a buzzy new social media platform that is being touted as a potential alternative to Twitter, prompted the discussion. They asked Dorsey if he believed Musk was the right leader for Twitter, to which Dorsey replied, “No.”

[quote] “No. Nor do I think he acted right after realizing his timing was bad. Nor do I think the board should have forced the sale. It all went south,” Dorsey wrote. He added that he is glad new social media platforms like Bluesky are being built. Dorsey has backed Bluesky since 2019, when he was still serving as Twitter’s CEO.

I like blue