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Although Bluesky is an improvement over X-Twitter in terms of your ability to move to a different server in the event the main Bluesky ATProto node also gets bought out by someone like Elon Musk, ATProto nodes are not really decentralized since they are prohibitively expensive for individuals to run due to early architectural choices. According to “How decentralized is Bluesky really?” (2024-11-22) by ActivityPub developer, Christine Lemmer-Webber, a Bluesky node requires 5 TB, which maps to somewhere between 6-60k USD/year in cloud storage costs. The problematic architectural is that ActivityPub uses “message passing” while ATProto uses “shared heap”, using Christine's phrasing.
tl;dr A Bluesky node is better than X-Twitter but very costly to run compared to Fediverse.
For sure. It has a bunch of network effects that didn't really develop on mastodon though, and that makes it useful in a way that the latter is not. In particular, if I want to exercise influence, I'm much more likely to be able to do that on BlueSky than on Mastodon, which makes it a must-use platform for me.
I think a few key technical features helped make that happen: