Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Plots Exit From X to Discord Over ‘Endless Rage’

Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson has revealed he is working on a plan to move the ADA community from X after months of contending with expletive-laden tweet threads against him.

Hoskinson said he had spoken with EMURGO chief executive Phillip Pon and was working on a strategy to create a Discord-based hub for the betterment of the Cardano ecosystem.

Hoskinson Frustrated With X, Says Real Work is Elsewhere

He made the announcement in a late Thursday post on the social platform he means to abandon, writing:

“Dropping by to let everyone know that I spoke with Phillip Pon, and we are working out a plan to create a discord for a great migration of the Cardano community from X.”

He continued to say the new platform would create “happy, positive, well-moderated channels” and leave behind what he described as “drama, lies, endless rage, and embittered people” on X.

According to Hoskinson’s post, he will continue using X to broadcast livestreams because of his large audience exceeding one million followers.

The disgruntled blockchain developer revealed that he will have future Ask Me Anything sessions in which he will answer queries only from the Cardano and Midnight Discord servers. Midnight is a privacy-oriented blockchain protocol created by IOG.

“I’ve seen some commentary that broadcasting means I’m back on X. For those people, I can’t solve stupid… Enjoy your scandals of the week and FUD,” he surmised.

The proposed migration follows months of complaints from Hoskinson on the alleged toxicity that X had caused within the Cardano ecosystem.

During an April 24 YouTube livestream titled “Remember Kids, X Isn’t Reality,” he said that he had been working on an artificial intelligence project called Project Nyx to help automate some of his online engagement.

X’s rules reportedly made those plans complicated because AI-managed accounts must be labeled as bots, and that would reduce the visibility of his posts.

The Magnitude of the Problem Hoskinson Is Facing

Last week, Cardano community member Christian Taylor ran an analysis on 130 or so responses to an X post asking people to stop the “constant anti-@IOHK_Charles threads,” and the result painted a small picture of what Hoskinson says he is fighting against.

Per Taylor’s assessment, done with the help of Grok, Hoskinson is facing two problems on the social platform. The first is what Grok described as “raw toxicity,” with about one in three replies being either hostile, abusive, or chock-full of profanity.

The AI also identified a pattern of targeting, including identical language patterns, thinly anonymous accounts, and “cross-chain references that point toward organized amplification.”

However, some of the negative comments also carried genuine community frustration, coming from financial losses and worries about delivery, as well as questions about the Cardano leadership and their accountability to the community.

Looking at the market, ADA is up more than 3% on the back of Hoskinson’s announcement and was trading near $0.17 at the time of writing. This is in sharp contrast to last week, when another announcement by the programmer that he was taking a break saw the coin’s value drop by 11%.

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