@1bc70a0148b3f316da33fe3c89f23e3e71ac4ff998027ec712b905cd24f6a411 @3bf0c63fcb93463407af97a5e5ee64fa883d107ef9e558472c4eb9aaaefa459d Mastodon has a pure anarchist philosophy when it comes to decentralization. They think your server should have zero reliance on anything else. Bluesky takes the opposite approach, more like an authoritarian socialist one, where there is an high level of reliance on the official Communist party servers, but the whole stack is made up of user-interchangeable microservices. So for example, as a user you could run a custom timeline algorithm service and other users could point to it. It's basically the Twitter microservices topology but users can set the URLs to each piece. Importantly, identity is centralized on Bluesky's BGS.

Nostr does not take a pure anarchist approach to servers, but it does take a pure anarchist approach to clients. That's how it's different. Although in reality, with many clients relying on services such as nostr.build, and there being many singleton services like Primal or nsecBunker or whatever without the clear message to "host your own" as the main way of doing it, Nostr is a big mixture of everything.