I feel the simplest at most straightforward way to understand the difference between #bkuesky and #fediverse is to do the most obvious thing and follow the money, the closest fediverse has to an authority is a non profit foundation that maintains the protocol and the mastodon.social instances while bluesky has tecnofascist VCs (oxymoron) with undisclosed power over the most important part of the network
the main problem with #bluesky and #atproto is the problem that fundamentally plagues all tech liberals, they do not oppose the current social stratification, only who is currently on top of it.
The problem is not that social media is a corporate controlled walled garden, only that it's not controlled by their corporation.
there is no decentralization on bluesky while the relays and the firehose and controlled by the one corporation, it doesn't matter how well you can run your own pds when to participate in the network you have to join their network that they control, this is not decentralization it's externalizing the costs of data storage
@quollveth ATProto is specifically designed so that relays can't be monopolized by one corporation.
