I mean, I don't care about BlueSky (or as I call it "Twitter's BS protocol") all that much. But I do care about how a protocol that started off in :birdsite: 's "blockchain division" suddenly drops the blockchain part.
To me that means that the cryptocurrency racket has perhaps finally jumped the Blåhaj. ?
Note that the crawling indexer is made necessary for things like "likes, reposts, followers".
As in, a crawling indexer is necessary for basic functionality of BlueSky, apparently.
Compare to #ActivityPub, where no such hard requirement exists, even though a service that relies on crawling to provide recommendations (for example) could exist.