That’s really the biggest disappointment with them. They started with a reasonable vision for scalable decentralized social media, and then built something and at every turn doubled down on centralization and took advantage of their privileged position to implement things easily rather than doing it the Right Way (tm).
There’s a lot of lessons there for many Bitcoin protocols…
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There exist end-to-end ATprotocol implementations that touch no Bluesky infrastructure. It's nowhere near Nostr, but it's also not a centralisation pantomime villain.