Bluesky is a purportedly-decentralized social media company that spun out of Twitter, beginning in 2019. It makes sense that people are hunting for new social media platforms right now — Elon Musk's disastrous takeover of Twitter has demonstrated how fragile relying on private VC-funded companies is for something so critical as communication infrastructure. BlueSky's answer to this is that they are decentralized — thanks to the AT Protocol, anyone can run a server. Unfortunately, it's dec...
