Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’

Bluesky 临时首席执行官 Toni Schneider 转正

In March, Bluesky’s longtime CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down from that role to become its chief innovation officer. Graber was immediately succeeded by Toni Schneider, the founding CEO of Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress and Tumblr. 今年 3 月，Bluesky 的长期首席执行官 Jay Graber 卸任，转而担任首席创新官。Toni Schneider 随即接任，他曾是 Automattic 的创始首席执行官，该公司是 WordPress 和 Tumblr 背后的母公司。

Schneider, who has led the company as interim CEO for the past four months, is now dropping the “interim” status and becoming its permanent chief executive. “I’m four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it’s time for an update,” Schneider wrote on his personal blog. “Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I’m loving the mission and the job, and I’m all in as Bluesky’s official CEO.” 在过去四个月里一直担任临时首席执行官的 Schneider，如今去掉了“临时”头衔，正式成为常任首席执行官。Schneider 在其个人博客中写道：“我在 Bluesky 担任临时首席执行官已有四个月，现在是时候更新一下状态了。最重要的是，从今天起，头衔中的‘临时’二字已成过去。我热爱这份使命和工作，我将全力以赴担任 Bluesky 的正式首席执行官。”

In the post, Schneider said that one of his first orders of business is to “create smaller spaces and more private communities,” which he said would “unlock the next wave of growth and innovation.” Automattic and True Ventures, which is a venture capital firm where Schneider is a partner, are both investors in Bluesky. 在这篇博文中，Schneider 表示，他上任后的首要任务之一是“创建更小的空间和更私密的社区”，他认为这将“开启下一波增长与创新浪潮”。Automattic 和 True Ventures（Schneider 在该风险投资公司担任合伙人）均为 Bluesky 的投资者。

Bluesky, which was originally spun off from Twitter, became a haven for those who wished to avoid the changes Elon Musk brought to the platform after he took it over in 2022 (the site was eventually renamed X and now it is a subsidiary of Musk’s combination rocket and AI company, SpaceXAI). Bluesky 最初从 Twitter 分拆出来，成为了那些希望避开埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）在 2022 年接管平台后所带来变革的用户们的避风港（该网站最终更名为 X，现在是马斯克旗下火箭与人工智能公司 SpaceXAI 的子公司）。

Under Graber, the site grew to 43 million users, while the site’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol — a system that lets Bluesky and other apps share the same social network — was significantly expanded. Lately, though, the site has struggled to retain or grow its user base. Some have questioned whether it is dying — pointing to apparent declines in both engagement and its overall community of users. 在 Graber 的领导下，该网站用户增长至 4300 万，同时其底层技术 AT Protocol（一个允许 Bluesky 和其他应用共享同一社交网络的系统）也得到了显著扩展。然而，近来该网站在留住或扩大用户群方面遇到了困难。一些人质疑它是否正在走向衰落，并指出其参与度和整体用户社区出现了明显的下滑。

Bluesky saw a sharp rise in users in the wake of Donald Trump’s re-election (when Elon Musk was most active in politics), but the site appears to have seen a drop off since then. In short: Schneider will have his work cut out for him. He seems game for it, though. “We’re at the very beginning of this story,” he wrote Friday. 在唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）再次当选后（当时埃隆·马斯克在政治上最为活跃），Bluesky 的用户曾出现激增，但此后该网站的用户似乎有所流失。简而言之，Schneider 将面临艰巨的任务。不过，他似乎已经做好了准备。他在周五写道：“我们正处于这个故事的开端。”