Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

For someone invested in decentralized protocols, it just sounds like people trying to reinvent the wheel. "let’s make it decentralized" "wow, very cool idea".

Those guys are business guys but they have no idea what they are talking about. They don’t know the first bit about technical decentralization, about prior art, about the politics involved.

They are so close of realizing that their companies are Frankenstein monsters they don’t control anymore. They are so close of getting the whole idea that Stallman is trying to articulate for the late 40 years. But they are locked in their business/company/VC model and can’t get out of that.

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[Jack Dorsey] "Yes, a new platform is needed. It can't be a company. This is why I left."

[Jack Dorsey] "https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507777913042571267?s=20..."

[Elon Musk] "Ok"

[Elon Musk] "What should it look like?"

[Jack Dorsey] "I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn't own the protocol, only advances it. A bit like what Signal has done. It can't have an advertising model. Otherwise you have surface area that governments and advertisers will try to influence and control. If it has a centralized entity behind it, it will be attacked. This isn't complicated work, it just has to be done right so it's resilient to what has happened to twitter."

[Elon Musk] "Super interesting idea"

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[Jack Dorsey] "I'm off the twitter board mid May and then completely out of company. I intend to do this work and fix our mistakes. Twitter started as a protocol. It should have never been a company. That was the original sin."

[Elon Musk] "I'd like to help if I am able to"

[Jack Dorsey] "I wanted to talk with you about it after I was all clear, because you care so much, get it's importance, and could def help in immeasurable ways. Back when we had the activist come in, I tried my hardest to get you on our board, and our board said no. That's about the time l decided I needed to work to leave, as hard as it was for me."

[Elon Musk] "Do you have a moment to talk?"

[Jack Dorsey] "Bout to head out to dinner but can for a minute"

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[Jack Dorsey] "I think the main reason is the board is just super risk averse and saw adding you as more risk, which I thought was completely stupid and backwards, but I only had one vote, and 3% of company, and no dual class shares. Hard set up. We can discuss more."

[Elon Musk] "Let's definitely discuss more"

[Elon Musk] "I think it's worth both trying to move Twitter in a better direction and doing something new that's decentralized"

[Jack Dorsey] "It's likely the best option. I just have doubts. But open"

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https://www.techemails.com/p/elon-musks-twitter-texts

Sounds like a good idea but clearly not in the best interest of investors, so nothing new there really.

This item of Musk v. Twitter gossip finally made me empathise with all the people complaining about the “…in Rust” links

When you hear Musk being interviewed you'd certainly have to believe otherwise, he definitely claims he is the brains behind a lot of innovation.