I want to like BlueSky but my feeds are either super political or gay. It's totally fine to have gay shit there but a filter would be neat.

Bluesky feeds have either porn, politics or both

We need to remove some of the links from the fediverse logo to show all the defederations

bluesky (or rather the underlying protocol, ATProto) is not actually decentralized. all public identity keys (signature keys) reside with a single entity (some non-profit organization in switzerland, PLC). if they get hacked, the hackers can forge any identity they want to.

only the messages and media files are stored decentralized, and the user profile personal information (profile picture, bio, etc). but not the crucial signature keys.

What's the symbol on the left?

Forget the BS instances argument everyone keeps having.

The question I ask the ATProto folks is this: Explain how, if Bluesky went out of business tomorrow, the network keeps running without disruption.

I know that it can keep working, but unlike the Fediverse, it won't happen smoothly like if a major instance shuddered and people had to migrate. Bluesky holds the whole thing together in a way that impedes good decentralization.

"For the purpose of whatever's about to happen next, yes we're friends"

Sadly, I think Fedi made the bridge.