The development of that other protocol that was also blessed with a money injection from Jack, is NOSTR.
This protocol and all the clients and relays went the full decentralized route.
This had up and downsides. Not all clients support all features. Not all relays support all features, and the quality between these apps is greatly differing.
But the upside is: the development is truly decentralized. Nobody is in control and every developer chooses which of the many NIP (Nostr improvement proposals) they want to incorporate or ignore.
Off course, most users will just use the most popular clients (like https://primal.net/home and https://damus.io) but simply thaking your crypographic keys and moving clients, or using a whole bunch of clients next to each other, is just such a vastly better experience then logging on to one platform, either BlueSky or X.
This protocol and all the clients and relays went the full decentralized route. This had up and downsides. Not all clients support all features. Not all relays support all features, and the quality between these apps is greatly differing.
But the upside is: the development is truly decentralized. Nobody is in control and every developer chooses which of the many NIP (Nostr improvement proposals) they want to incorporate or ignore.
Off course, most users will just use the most popular clients (like https://primal.net/home and https://damus.io) but simply thaking your crypographic keys and moving clients, or using a whole bunch of clients next to each other, is just such a vastly better experience then logging on to one platform, either BlueSky or X.