Also, those central components are controlled by the USA-based Bluesky corporation.

This allows that country' law enforcment and agencies to get their hands on all that data regardless of where it's hosted (cf Cloud Act). A gag order can prevent Bluesky from speaking out (cf Gag order) so we would never know.

Federation was built into email from day one, which is why it was a killer app, why it couldn’t be coopted by one company[^1], and why we’re still using it today.

[^1]: Though Google unfortunately has managed to gain enormous influence.

Every new ATProto app makes this problem worse, not better. Each app tells you "sign in with your Bluesky account", which really means "write more data to Bluesky's servers." The more apps that launch, the more users depend on Bluesky's infrastructure, the less reason anyone has to leave. The protocol doesn't distribute value across the network. It concentrates it. Developers are building features on top of Bluesky's infrastructure for free, making it more indispensable with every app that ships.

Bluesky does not have instances. It's an enterprise-architecture "solution" that almost nobody can (probably intentionally) host all of. The AppView in particular is difficult since it requires terabytes of storage and is likely to keep growing and it is also one of the components where they have done some moderation actions in the past.

Only one even close to providing a full alternative is Blacksky with their budget approaching $100k/year but even they don't have their AppView running in production yet.

Did you consider choosing another instance? mastodon.social is a bit too big, so it's a good idea to take a look at other instances. I've never seen an instance that was restricted in this way.@dustcircle @Mastodon@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mstdn.social @staff @mastodonusercount @bluesky@lemmy.ml @bsky.app @bluesky@lemm.ee

At least the fediverse will continue to exist because of its open and decentralized nature. It’s always aimed towards a more niche audience and tbh that is a good thing.

I tried to like bluesky but I just found the content boring personally. It felt like 75% of the posts being served to me were unfunny liberal memes and the other 25% was people talking about X. I eventually accepted that it just wasn't for me after about a month and ditched it in favor of lemmy.

and its mostly bots

Glad you’re here brother, this is a great community

This stat page is awesome. It is OK if the fediverse does not grow all the time, I believe it is the future for me personally.

Now that people are locked into their quick-endorphin zombie scrolling, I am not sure there is as much novel incentive to participate in the internet. Like contributing any content beyond viewing/liking. I lurked mostly and participated only in obscure niches. Now I am returning a la the fediverse. It is great that this is not a growth motivated platform so much, it is a community valuing quality. Dozens of us !

The corps can serve up slop for the zombies, enjoy!

I think a lot of people are swearing off the internet altogether, it's become a terrible place. Lots of paywalls and garbage.

Fediverse is dying as well.

https://fedidb.com/stats

People just don’t give a single fuck. I don’t think anything can move users away from them no matter what big social does.

Thank you!

Do they explain why it is better to try to make this dream happen with Bluesky when the reality already exists on the Fediverse/ActivityPub?

At least a couple of factors. The first major thing is that It seems like many people are no longer really moving away from X no matter what Elon does or to the extent they do the hype for Bluesky may have died down so much that they go more to Threads. Ppl leave as the site slows down.Another factor is a string of bad mod decisions and interactions that the BSky team has had with the community which has made people think they may not really be that much better than Meta or X@200ok @bluesky

I'm OOTL. Did something happen?

indeed

https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115035207817640719

@pluralistic@mamot.fr Nobody whose business exists solely due to the investment of fascists, cryptogrifters and TESCREAL lunatics deserves the benefit of the doubt that you are heaping upon them.

I don't care how charming they are at cocktail parties.

Considering what Cory says is the worst part of Bluesky the site: lack of federation; it's a good thing that Wafrn has builtin support for interacting with Bluesky, so it's an option to properly bridge people out of corporate owned social media into the fediverse