@failedLyndonLaRouchite @Loukas I think the thing to take out of all of this is that, objectively, the functionality the Bluesky authors wanted could've been built on ActivityPub. And that would've allowed it to interact with Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse.
But they specifically built this in a way so that it doesn't do that. Meaning that I can't follow my friends on Bluesky, and they can't follow me. There is no good reason for them to have done that.