What purpose does it serve for a dev to recreate a brand new app view right now? Yes there's getting away from centralization but is that enough to encourage someone to build something from the ground up? Right now it's only devs tinkering.

If Bluesky introduced 5 ads per post tomorrow. You can bet your ass there's going to be a new app backfilled with historical data within a month. But right now there's zero incentive since they've already solved the major problems of Twitter and Mastodon.

The relay is probably a bit more important for decentralization, but it's not particularly hard to load up a relay within a days work as the guy in the above response has shown. The white wind app also pulls directly from PDS' avoiding the need to use a relay at all.

If you have the data and the code you are in the effectively decentralized since anyone can effectively recreate your platform in a few days. Regardless I'm sure BlueSky will make a decision at some point that will entice someone enough to publish a separate appview. Think about how long Lemmy has been around and it's barely starting to see separate platforms take off more like mbin and piefed. Yeah kbin was around 2 years ago and piefed was very early but it takes a long time for these platforms to grow and mature, we can't just expect them to exist overnight when BlueSky has been fully public for what barely a year?