{"id":325926,"date":"2021-08-16T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/crypto-developer-will-lead-twitters-decentralized-social-media-initiative\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:05:00","slug":"crypto-developer-will-lead-twitters-decentralized-social-media-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/crypto-developer-will-lead-twitters-decentralized-social-media-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"# Crypto developer will lead Twitter&#8217;s decentralized social media initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Crypto developer will lead Twitter&#8217;s decentralized <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> initiative <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDgvY2FkMzFkMzYtMTVhNC00NDkyLTllOTctNzllZTkyNmVjMTk3LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>Jay Graber, a former software engineer for Zcash and blockchain firm Skuchain, will be leading the anticipated decentralized social media initiative first announced by Twitter in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter announcement on Monday, Graber <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arcalinea\/status\/1427314482154414080\">said<\/a> they would be in charge of the Bluesky project after working closely with \u201ca group of thinkers and builders\u201d from the decentralized social ecosystem. They plan on hiring for the Bluesky team and \u201cpartnering closely with Twitter and other companies\u201d as part of the next steps towards fulfilling the decentralized social media plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m excited to announce that I\u2019ll be leading <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bluesky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bluesky<\/a>, an initiative started by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Twitter<\/a> to decentralize social media. Follow updates on Twitter and at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sg4MxK1zwl\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sg4MxK1zwl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay Graber (@arcalinea) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arcalinea\/status\/1427314482154414080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Jack Dorsey announced in December 2019 that Twitter would be funding a dedicated team to develop a decentralized standard for social media, and for the company to ultimately be a part of this standard. He\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1204766078468911106\">said<\/a> the challenges social media networks faced included \u201ccentralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and misleading information,\u201d shifting away from content hosting and removal to recommendation algorithms directing users\u2019 attention, and content that sparks controversy and outrage rather than healthy and informative conversations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew technologies have emerged to make a decentralized <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach more viable,\u201d said the Twitter CEO at the time. \u201cBlockchain points to a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of decentralized solutions for open and durable hosting, governance, and even monetization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Crypto social governance will lead to online freedom<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the appointment of Graber to lead Bluesky, Dorsey <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jack\/status\/1427315839666118662\">said<\/a> it would allow the project to \u201cmove much faster, and through code.\u201d The Twitter CEO said in June that he was planning to integrate Bitcoin\u2019s Lightning Network sidechain with at least one of his businesses \u2014 but did not specifically say whether this was Bluesky.<\/p>\n<p>Kraken growth lead Dan Held and Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali also <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danheld\/status\/1427315646841430027\">seemed<\/a> to express their support for Graber:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congrats, Jay! Your work in the early days of crypto can certainly help here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 muneeb.btc (@muneeb) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/muneeb\/status\/1427320773807575048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"defi_newsletter\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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In a Twitter announcement on Monday, Graber said they would be in charge of the Bluesky project&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDgvY2FkMzFkMzYtMTVhNC00NDkyLTllOTctNzllZTkyNmVjMTk3LmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74983,117,73821,73952,4976,10401],"class_list":["post-325926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-decentralization","tag-business","tag-developers","tag-jack-dorsey","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}