Bluesky was fine before scale, just like Mastodon was. My experience was that the twitter migration tilted Mastodon, then they flocked to Bluesky. Bluesky then got enough scale that it attracted mainstream, and this attracted political and monetary opportunists (meat and metal). The twitter folk likely won't flock here, because the culture has a heavy bitcoin tilt along with the associated subculture aspects (some of which attract me, some of which does not). There is also an apples/oranges deal here, in that fully distributed architectures like Nostr and the older WebID/FOAF push a lot of network traffic/connections down on the client. I've had multiple accounts on both Bluesky and Mastodon, and was there during the migrations. You could watch the birds swarm and kill the forest, then watch the opportunists show up. My take is that architecturally Nostr simply can't scale to 100 million and be usable, but Bluesky can (even if the cultural barrier was overcome). If Nostr did scale like that (I'm wrong) I'd still wager that we would still have a cultural barrier, and even if that was overcome, you'd have technical barriers because regular folks these days can't secure a private key. So: enjoy this island of freedom, but I think you are assuming too much about the reasons. (yeah... like the other posts, proving your point, lol)