"As Bluesky matures, the company needs a seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution, while I return to what I do best: building new things."

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

Official blog announcement:

"After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer."

A New Chapter for Bluesky - Bluesky

After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer.

Bluesky (bsky.social)

#bluesky

[benbrown@masto.hackers.town]

@stefan LOL LOL LOL

[phillycodehound@indieweb.social]

@stefan The guy knows the Open Web. He was CEO at Automattic for a bit. We'll wait and see.

[misskoula@libretooth.gr]

@stefan building new things...

Lol

[liebach@mastodon.art]

@stefan I like that there's a huge "we're hiring" thing just below all that crap text.

[ambergrey@mastodon.social]

@stefan sigh

[eestileib@tech.lgbt]

@benbrown @stefan

Can I get some context for why this is particularly lollable?

[ikuturso@mastodon.social]

@phillycodehound @stefan that guy is just interim CEO so you need to wait and see what kind of a CEO they'll end up with

[heliograph@mastodon.au]

@stefan hahahahahaaa "Toni Schneider, former CEO of Automattic and partner at True Ventures, will join our team as interim CEO" - they probably all met on the island >.<

[mimesatwork@wandering.shop]

@ikuturso @phillycodehound @stefan The guy is a girl. Her full name is Lantian "Jay" Graber, she's the woman in the thumbnail

[ikuturso@mastodon.social]

@Mimesatwork @phillycodehound @stefan we're referring to Toni Schneider, the new interim CEO that replaces Jay Graber

[mimesatwork@wandering.shop]

@ikuturso @phillycodehound @stefan Gotcha!

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@peterbrown Lots of speculations, we'll see!

[aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au]

@stefan See, I read that as: "After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, our VC funders have decided it's time for me to step down as CEO, so they can bring in an enshittification expert to squeeze some profit out of their investment."

You watch. BlueSky's paid premium service or "unobtrusive ad platform" will come in the next 12 months or so.

[astropug@hachyderm.io]

@stefan

Interesting. I’ll watch how it shakes out from here.

[elliessurviving@tech.lgbt]

@stefan rest in piss, wont be missed (has she even banned jesse singal yet?)

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@ElliesSurviving I don't think anything changed about Singal, but Graber is still going to be at Bluesky, just in a different role.

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

Official blog announcement: "After several intense and incredible years building Bluesky from the ground up, I've decided to step back as CEO and transition to a new role as Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer." https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky #bluesky

Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server (stefanbohacek.online)

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@stefan

#bluesky is going the way of #twitter

with new leadership due to financial pressure, they are going to cave and ruin some aspect of it

my unfounded speculation is some #crypto tie-in shit, since it's owned and run by #cryptobros

also as @mastodonmigration noted, it's interesting timing with the #midterms coming up

enjoy bluesky folks!

but its days are numbered

[timo21@mastodon.sdf.org]

@stefan which part of enshittification is BS in?

[pitico@mastodon.social]

@benroyce @stefan @mastodonmigration aquele app já morreu só a Jay Grayber esqueceu de enterrar e deixou o cadáver do Blue Sky semi putrafato e insepulto kkk