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ActivityPub has a over 20k different independent instances, mostly federating with one another. BlueSky has one, and if you try to set up an independent one, it won't federate.
I mean, I'd laugh, but it's not even funny.
You are confusing content warnings (not exposing others to potentially triggering content you post) with moderation (making it hard to harass users). These are two very different things.
Yes, and the current owners have no economic incentive to change that. It's a project backed by financial investors, which means they'll want to get back as much money as possible as soon as possible.
Don't get me wrong, this is not some "venture capital bashing". It's their full right to earn their money back and do with their companies whatever they want. If I were a financial investor, I did the same (what is ignored in many discussions on this is the fact that the vast majority of VC investments fail due to their high-risk nature, but that's a different story). I just argue that if you want a distributed and/or decentralised system, you likely need a different kind of funding and a more decentralized form of decision making.
Their initial funding came from twitter, but twitter doesn't own it. The BlueSky Public Benefit LLC is owned by the founding team, many of whom have been working on decentralized protocols (SecureScuttlebutt, IPFS, Hypercore, XMPP, among others) since before Mastodon was a thing. The entire purpose of their company is to build the protocol, not their instance of it. Running the first instance is just a way to bootstrap the protocol.
After reading atproto.com do you still think accounts that currently exist on bsky.app won't soon be able to migrate to another (including a self-hosted) PDS?
After reading atproto.com I still think it won't matter, because secondary centralization will happen in the "reach" layer. That's where the power in the system will be. As explored pretty in-depth in the blogpost that started this whole thread.