It sucks reading all the Mastodon vs Bluesky takes because the whole *point* of decentralized social media was that it didn’t have to be a zero-sum game. Yes Mastodon is more nerdy and yes Bluesky is more “normal”, but if they all used ActivityPub then everyone could win!

But instead of contributing to the open social web, Bluesky decided to fork the ecosystem with their own proprietary protocol :/ And now we’re headed for the same siloed world as before