[supern0va]

>To this I would say: migration is not the path to spreading users out across instances at a large scale. Migration to me is more of an insurance against a service going down or turning evil.

I think people aren't paying enough attention this part right here: I think the architecture of atproto creates a different set of incentives. People running communities are more likely to face community pressure to ban users, or de-federate with other communities they don't like, and your open/decentralized network fractures apart, creating little silos.

People running infrastructure connecting them to a global network/resource are less likely to feel those pressures. No one asks an email provider to ban another webmail host. The architecture colors the perception.

The biggest problem Bluesky has had is that by virtue of being the only effective relay at launch, people viewed it more like the former and less like the latter. But I think if we start to see more places like Blacksky and Eurosky get mindshare, we can shift it back.