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The article isn’t quite clear on if this is a Twitter subsidiary, or actual competition.
Yea that's a bad title
Was it initially a spin off or something?
Jack Dorsey, formerly head of Twitter, sits on the board for blue sky, which is not related to Twitter.
It was originally a Twitter project, but it clearly didn't get included in the sale. It was Jack's "offload the cost of hosting social media to others, while retaining all of the revenue generating abilities for the company" Hail Mary.
Then the big doofus came along and threw so much money at him.
It's a bit of a confusing history. The AT Protocol for decentralization was a side project of Twitter that later spun off, grew, and became Bluesky.
It also gets "decentralisation" wrong.