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To be honest I have no idea of what this discussion is about anymore. If you stated the parts on which you agreed with me it would ease my confusion -- but I'll try to clarify now: I guess I can say that (1) we both agree Bluesky is not decentralized today; (2) you think it can be decentralized if and when more people start running more BGS and AppViews, I don't think that will happen and even if it does it will be inconsequential; (3) you think Bluesky has some cool features like custom feeds and I agree; (4) you think Bluesky is getting really big because of these cool features and I think they play a very minor role in their growth. Good summary? You also seem to think Nostr is broken in many ways and not innovating enough, but these points are vague to me. I would like to know what cool features could or should be added to Nostr and what is more broken so we can try to fix.

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I don’t *think* it will necessarily become properly decentralized, but rather that it totally *could* and they are working toward it (whether they run out of resources before they get there I dunno), thus I think dismissing Bluesky as “not decentralized, next” is naive. But I can tell you for sure there the “custom feeds” feature, at a minimum, led to substantial early adopter/evangelist momentum. To a much lesser extent the decentralized labeling/moderation/censorship feature as well. Even if they didn’t drive material user adoption, they’re cool features we should be learning from, not dismissing the whole thing “because it’s not decentralized”.