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It feels to me like the single biggest difference between Bluesky and Mastodon is that Bluesky wants to be a viable Twitter replacement and Mastodon doesn't

Lol right? When I heard people talking about hosting servers and such I ran

This 💯. Hoping BlueSky has learnt how to smooth some of those wrinkles.

Do you see all of the people with custom domains? They have the old wrinkles solved; going to be new wrinkles that people are not going to like

How do you think the domain names are going to cause new wrinkles?

I’d argue that many of the people that made it here early were also capable of onboarding to Mastodon. Making the federation work for users when it is shipped will be a big challenge.

What are the upsides of the federation? People being able to set their own rules and moderate their own way?

In my opinion it’s similar to the advantage of having major pieces of internet infrastructure open source. One might ask “what’s the advantage of Blink being open source - only one company is big enough or rich enough to maintain it?”

Mainly it's avoiding having a single company that everything depends on. That's what drew me to Mastodon: I wanted a short-form content publishing service that was guaranteed to be immune from being bought and ruined by some billionaire

I think the idea is that the network of users doesn’t have to rely on one company to run the service. And yeah, there could be alternative moderation, feed algorithms, interfaces. And freedom to move between services, including all your posts (which Mastodon doesn’t seem capable of).