It's been clear for a while Bluesky isn't a good actor. Defenses to this are either "no alternative" or "but ATproto". These are both weak arguments.
For alternative: fediverse. And on protocol: Bluesky is so dominant, it effectively is the protocol.
I don't like Mastodon's dominant position on fedi either, but where Bluesky PBC is 99% of AT, mastodon.social is about 30% of active fedi.
Still not de-bridging, though.
https://werd.io/on-ice-verification-and-presence-as-harm/
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