@rees @eris @sun_eater @Epsi Bluesky and Threads exist for these reasons:

1. tell regulators that they cannot be responsible for moderation or top-down regulator control of content because of the nature of decentralized networking.
2. retain vestigial/Potemkin village federation so they can tell EU regulators that they have made a best-effort attempt at complying with messaging interoperability rules.

These are all lies for multiple reasons for example Bluesky has at least two chokepoints that would enable them to control the entire network (biggest is placeholder server, look it up) and actual decentralization would destroy their ability to track users and serve ads, which obviously can never happen so absolutely none of this shit is real/good-faith.