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To grow the ATproto network, Bluesky has to grow a lot more. If Bluesky doesn't grow, it's just gonna disappear. It's not like Mastodon, which is perfectly happy to stay small. If Bluesky doesn't grow, it is going to die alongside the network.

I think it's unrealistic that it will stick around in its current form if it doesn't grow. It's designed for scale, and optimizing for it. It's a fairly different approach compared to Mastodon, where instances are small monolith easy to self-host but the whole network is harder to scale.

Pros and cons with both approaches. I think there is value in scale, especially if you wanna build an ecosystem, but also if you wanna be the place where things happen that Twitter used to be (and X still is).

maybe i'm misunderstanding, but from fig's showcases of @microcosm.blue and talk at #ATProto_NYC this year, i was under the impression that hosting the PLC is only a few gigs in totality now in addition, bluesky has started reaching 2012 twitter status for certain niche groups... (1/3)