This is why it's Patch Tuesday and not Patch Friday.

Seems to be permanent. (Until the next rug.)

What do you think of Delving as an alternative?

Who's they here? Google?

"Ha-ha here is more work for you stupid open source devs so you can do that instead of spending the time improving your stupid freedom money"

Link to Christine's post: dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec....

how they learned from each other's tradeoff, and start converging for some things in practice after starting on opposite ends of the spectrum.

The post is full of links to other interesting posts on related topics. For instance Christine Lemmer-Weber's "How decentralized is Bluesky really?".