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This is... the least charitable possible interpretation of the current state of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. It's not wrong, but it's not clear that it will be right either.

Personally I would have preferred if they implemented federation before going into beta because that is the whole point of a decentralized network. But OTOH there is an opportunity right now to lure people away from Twitter and that opportunity may not exist in a few months. I don't think progressive decentralization, over a span of months not years, is inherently evil.

[manojlds]

From what the CEO said, they were giving out invites from the start and no one was using them and then suddenly the momentum hit and everything was gobbled up and lot more than they anticipated joined.