Ah, but anticlimactic bsky-sans-bsky is precisely what I hope for 😉 Srsly, I dream of the day when all sorts of communities set up shop on ATproto, with users empowered to connect (or not!) with whomever they want, anywhere they want, all without any direct involvement from Bluesky Social, PBC.

One great thing Mastodon has that Bsky (currently) lacks is a broad and varied network with all kinds of servers/communities centered around all kinds of interests. The problem with Masto’s approach is that server admins decide who their own users can or can’t connect with, leading to fragmentation.

Having communities set up their own non-Bsky servers, and composable moderation giving users the ability to connect with whomever they want without server admin restrictions, is the real decentralized-social-media dream for me. Seeing steps taken towards that is heartening.