Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down (wired.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/09/1919227/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-stepping-down
- Source link: https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-stepping-down/
She will be transitioning to a new Chief Innovation Officer role while Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will serve as interim CEO until the board searches for a permanent replacement. Wired reports:
> Graber joined Bluesky in 2019, when it was a [3]research project within Twitter focused on developing a decentralized framework for the social web. She became the company's first chief executive officer in 2021, when it [4]spun out into an [5]independent entity . She oversaw the platform's remarkable rise and the growing pains it experienced as it transformed from a quirky Twitter offshoot to a full-fledged alternative to X. Schneider tells WIRED that he intends to help Bluesky "become not just the best open social app, but the foundation for a whole new generation of user-owned networks."
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> Schneider, who will continue working as a partner at the venture capital firm True Ventures while at Bluesky, was previously CEO of the Wordpress parent company, Automattic, from 2006 to 2014. He also served as its CEO again in 2024 while top executive Matt Mullenweg went on a sabbatical. During that time, Schneider met Graber and became an adviser to Bluesky's leadership. In a [6]blog post announcing his new role, Schneider said he plans to emphasize scaling, describing his job as "to help set up Bluesky's next phase of growth."
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> This isn't the end for Graber and Bluesky. She will transition to become the company's chief innovation officer, a role focused on Bluesky's technology stack rather than its business operations. The position was created for her. Graber, who began her career as a software engineer, has always sounded the most enthusiastic when discussing Bluesky's technology rather than its revenue streams. Bluesky's board of directors will appoint the next permanent CEO. The members include Jabber founder Jeremie Miller, crypto-focused VC Kinjal Shah, TechDirt founder Mike Masnick, and Graber. (Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was originally part of the board but quit in 2024.) This means Graber will have input on her successor. The talent search is still in early stages.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-stepping-down/
[2] https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/01/21/2257238/twitters-decentralized-social-network-project-takes-a-baby-step-forward
[4] https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/05/05/002249/twitters-decentralized-open-source-offshoot-releases-its-first-code
[5] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/02/07/0049213/bluesky-opens-to-the-public
[6] https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-coming-off-the-bench-for-bluesky
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> No need to worry, I dont think this ideologically very limited monoculture platform will last much longer..
"ideologically very limited" is a weird way to say "bans nazis", you precious little snowflake.
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No? wtf are you talking about, lol
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> "ideologically very limited" is a weird way to say "bans nazis", you precious little snowflake.
"Everybody I don't like is a Nazi".
The censors are the baddies. History and such.
Re: No need to worry (Score:1)
I don't believe it's about who they ban so much as who creates an account there to begin with, and even then, actively participates, and even still, what they actually talk about.
Of the major social media platforms, I tend to abserve the following:
- Twitter: anything and everything, even though the vast majority of it is completely useless
- YouTube: anything and everything, even if most of it is demonetized
- Reddit: anything and everything, if it weren't for the fact that the vast majority of it is automati
Re: No need to worry (Score:2)
Most recent data I could find shows:
Truth Social 6 million active
Gettr 9 million (total, maybe half are active)
Bluesky 40 million with about 3.5 million active.
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I like Bluesky. I don't need to live on the edge all the time, I don't need to near what Twitter Nazis have to say. If that's a bubble then I'm okay with it, it's got cats and some politics and it's not my only source of information.
Maybe it's too good for the capitalist world we live in and won't survive, but if it dies I won't be going back to Twitter.
Someone should make a Bluesky for Reddit. Reddit without the gaslighting and moderation abuse.
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If you're constantly getting Blocked on Bluesky, that's a YOU problem, princess. You can whine all you want about it, but nothing changes the fact that no one is obligated to engage with you.
Then put your money where your mouth is (Score:2, Informative)
> Schneider tells WIRED that he intends to help Bluesky "become not just the best open social app, but the foundation for a whole new generation of user-owned networks."
Bluesky will remain a normal monolithic network as long as its owned and controlled by one group. If they want to prove they intend to do what they're claiming they want to do, they need to decentralize, and split the company into multiple (at least 3) social network portals with their own critical infrastructure.
For now, there's only one
Technical debt from the start (Score:1)
Mostly because that idiot thought not implementing ActivityPub was smart.
The exit strategy begins.... (Score:2)
.... enshittification to follow.
never gonna grabe you up (Score:2)
Remember, you can't spell "enshittification" without "scaling and execution". Well, they have several letters in common, at least.
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"Scathing execration" comes to mind as a possible first step on the evolutionary chain from the latter to the former.