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Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media | TechCrunch
Curated:
27/07/2025 from
techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack-dorsey-pumps-10m-into-a-nonprofit-focused-on-open-source-social-media/
my notes ( ? )
"Jack Dorsey ... invested $10 million ... fund experimental open source projects and other tools that could ultimately transform the social media landscape." Original focus nostr, but now "will experiment with other tools, too, like ActivityPub... as well as Cashu."
"operating like a “community of hackers,”... could include new consumer social apps as well as various experiments, like developer tools or libraries"
He maintains his critique of Bluesky: "I want to push the energy in a different direction... like Bitcoin... completely open and not owned by anyone from a protocol layer. That’s what I see in Nostr as well"
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