A bunch of extremely interesting coincidences, in no particular order:

- Mastodon had existed for 3 years before blueksy started their own competing federated protocol in 2019
- After 5 years, there are ZERO alternative bsky websites for normal people to use ('hosting a docker container' ain't it)
- DMs are not part of the AT protocol, and go via bsky
- The protocol design makes it prohibitively expensive to host your own server
- The AT protocol is not an internet standard (activitypub is W3C)
- The "discover" feed is algorithmically sorted by bsky.
- bsky stopped being a "public benefit LLC" in July 2023, when they had an $8mil seed funding round.
- Their lead investor was "Blockchain Capital".
- Who now sit on their board.🙄