Perhaps I should say here what I've said before in conversation with folks: I would actually love to join Bluesky, and I plan to do that.

Since the very early days of Mastodon being a thing, I could spin up a Mastodon server, and my friend could spin up a Mastodon server, and we could have a conversation without Eugen's infrastructure being involved.

So. I'm going to make a Bluesky-accessible account on the day I can connect with someone over ATProto, using the same UI and having a similar experience as someone using a "normal" (Bluesky-hosted) flow, without Bluesky-the-company, or any big company aside from those already implicated in Internet access in general, being involved.

Not *everyone*, some people are on bsky.network the same way some people are on mastodon.social, but *someone*. Today that's not possible, and to me, that's clearly a *centralized* system.