The failure of Mastodon to break into the mainstream especially in the wake of Twitter/X's debacles is a good example on how decentralized web is a good idea on paper but won't work in practice. It turns out that a) people will just join the largest instance/community possible for network effects b) internet discourse is bifuricated enough that preemtively banning instances just in case makes discourse even more bifuricated and c) maintaining and moderating said instances is expensive and time-consuming.
Even though Bluesky did break through to the mainstream with ATProto, it's unclear how ATProto is either a functional or competitive benefit, or if its users even know about it.
Even though Bluesky did break through to the mainstream with ATProto, it's unclear how ATProto is either a functional or competitive benefit, or if its users even know about it.