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there's no requirement to get your own domain name. when you sign up you automatically get a yourname.bsky.social domain.

Nope. You own your keys, and you can switch to a different server instantly while retaining both your username and your followers. They can't impersonate you because they don't have your keys. They can't ready your messages because they don't have your keys.

It's a bit more complex underneath (e.g. the are light-clients that you can entrust with part of your key), but that's the gist.

The posts and likes are all public. Some servers can charge users, and will likely have more resources to improve their offerings that way.

Nope, AT Protocol is not compatible with ActivityPub.

Yes, another reason to move away. Although Elon has also stated that he's tasked Twitter engineers with working on implementing E2E encrypted DMs.

I don't expect it to stay closed source. But there are significant differences to Mastodon. Just to give one example: Mastodon server admins actually can read your private messages. Also Blue Sky's approach to data portability and how to implement filtering/indexing is more developed. It might be personal preference, but I prefer AT Protocol's approach where the servers have less powers, and the users have more power. A lot of little design decisions add up to a qualitative difference.

OP here. I don't expect these servers to become unmoderated. I think a lot of them will moderate as strictly or stricter than Twitter currently is.

Author here. You get to have all the moderation, filtering, etc. that is implemented on the servers you use.

I'm sure there will be servers that very closely try to approximate what Twitter is/has been doing. Servers also can share any and all information needed to effectively moderate.

Do you have an actual critique of replacing centralized companies with decentralized protocols?

People still need transportation.

where's the problem for the consumer?

It's worth pointing out that YC startup foreverlabs.com does freeze your stem cells for precisely that reason.

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