Yes, there are lots of different web and mobile clients. I use blacksky.community, which also has its own appview, so am almost completely independent of Bluesky infrastructure. @stefan mentioned Red Dwarf, and I think there are a handful of others that also allow you to select an appview (very analagous to how phanpy lets you choose an instance) so also allow almost complete independence.

In terms of your initial question, I think that many people (including me!) find a multiple-identity approach very valuable for a variety of reasons. That said, today's ActivityPub-based software doesn't handle multiple identities any better than ATProto-based software. So like so many other things with fedi, it's a potential strength that hasn't been leveraged.

@_elena @jaredwhite

Here's a conveniently-timed article looking at doing things completely independent of Bluesky - https://mia.leaflet.pub/3mhw3hzwtn224

@stefan @_elena @jaredwhite

Bluesky... without Bluesky - Mia's Blog

What if we could use Bluesky without touching any Bluesky servers? What about if we avoided touching their code, entirely?

@jdp23 Looks a bit involved. Interesting read, though, thank you for sharing!

@_elena @jaredwhite

Oh yeah, it's definitely at the duct tape and baling wire stage in general -- @jaredwhite is very right that right now Blacksky is the only reasonably-mature mostly-independent microblogging-focused tech stack. (Blacksky still uses Bluesky's PLC directory, although they do have a mirror that could if necessary fall back on; also they don't have their own mobile app yet, and still use some of Bluesky's moderation services.)

@stefan @_elena

@jdp23 Are they also using Bluesky's servers for DMs, since those are stored off-protocol?

Or do non-Bluesky AppViews just don't have DMs? (Or whichever part of the stack is responsible for that.)

@jaredwhite @_elena

I'm pretty sure they store DMs in the Blacksky AppView (which is a fork of the Bluesky AppView) but not 100% positive.

@stefan @jaredwhite @_elena