Jack Dorsey has invested $10 million in "and Other Stuff," a nonprofit collective focused on funding experimental open-source projects aimed at transforming social media.
The team, including Dorsey, Evan Henshaw-Plath, and others, collaborates on projects like Nostr, ActivityPub, and Cashu, seeking to create technologies that empower users and developers.
"and Other Stuff" is developing apps like Shakespeare (an AI-assisted Nostr app builder), heynow (a voice note app), and private messenger White Noise. They are also creating a social media "Bill of Rights" to ensure platforms prioritize privacy, security, and transparency.
Dorsey criticizes the corporate structure of existing social media platforms, including Bluesky, and advocates for open, decentralized protocols like Bitcoin and Nostr.
The nonprofit is working on various social media experiments and developer tools, with more exciting projects in the pipeline.