@unexpectedteapot @kel, What exactly pressure are you talking about?
At least with Mastodon, you can operate your own community outside the scope of another person who is running the code and their instance. If you want to run independently without federation, you can do that.
Bluesky is different from Mastodon; Mastodon is only a type of instance that you can use to connect to the ActivityPub federation.
While Bluesky, modular, tries to become AP on its own, but AFAIK cannot run by itself.