Jack Dorsey backs an open-source development collective with $10 million

Jack Dorsi recently returned to the news after unveiling a pair of new applications that he worked on, and. Block CEO has placed these together under the collective care of a new development called “and other things”, a non -profit organization that supports it with a cash injection of $ 10 million, such as Reports.

The group plans to work on open source projects, including those that can become social media applications for consumers, as well as applications development tools. The developers met with Nostr, a social network protocol that is financially supported by Dormyy.

The “and other group things” aims to support “Nostr’s transition from a trial protocol to a wide -ranging environmental system through cooperative growth and financing. In addition to NOSTR projects, collaborators are planning to experience construction tools based on the likespub – which operates Mastodon – and Cashu. Calle, the electronic platform crew, is part of the “and other” and other “and other” Evan Hinisho-Baht employee “.

The projects that you have worked on “and other things so far include Voice Note App Heynow, which is a special messenger application called White Noise and Social Community +Chorus. They also created Shakespeare, which was designed to help developers building NOSTR social applications with artificial intelligence.

Dorsi has long strengthened the attention of open source protocols. In 2019, during his second work, the CEO of Twitter, the company that was charged with forming an open and interstitial standard for social media. Dorsi was hoping to finally convert Twitter into this protocol, but of course he did not come out. Instead, Twitter cleared this project – Bluesky – as a public interest company in 2022. Last year, after leaving the Bluesky Council, Dorsi claimed that the team there was doing it while operating Twitter such as UH, creating moderation tools (which, in fact, an important aspect of any successful social platform).

In an episode of Henshaw-Vholath, Dorsy reiterated a point that he had previously explained, that Twitter was owned by advertisers (a problem competing with X). “It is difficult for something like [Twitter] To be a company, because you have companies’ incentives when you want to be a protocol, “then [Twitter] It was an open protocol, if it was a truly open project, you can build a business in addition, and you can build very healthy businesses over it. “

He was also criticized once again the Bluebike’s intention, adding that “I want to push the energy in a different direction … and it is more like bitcoin, and it is completely open and no one has a protocol layer. This is what I see in Nostr as well. This is where I want to pay my energy … instead in the direction of the company, even if it is a public absorption company.”