It does seem to have a better experience when you run your own instance, though. Which sort of leads to the situation you’re talking about. It’s also a MUCH better experience as a user when you find an instance you like. I agree with your point about transparent decentralization for non techies.

Do you think that part or the reason that people aren’t spinning up new instances is because the people who would care to do so are already on platforms like mastodon? Mastodon is sort of like the middle ground, instances with moderation, easy to move your account, etc. So why use Bluesky over that?

If he thinks people would go for this he’s dumber than people already think he is. Larry Ellison is just one of those people who make themselves incredibly easy to hate.

I don’t think we’ll even have future where appliances don’t have ads. Just like TVs, since the data is so valuable, the only options available will all have built in ads. You’re more optimistic than I am.