What I hear is that there was an outage that took all of bsky down, as well as centralised moderation. Correct me if I'm wrong, or if it's still in the works, but it sounds like valid criticism when people say that demonstrates it functions as a centralised platform

Haven't tried self-hosting Mastodon since I was looking for a social platform and not a new hobby. There's lots of hosters to choose from though, including the usual suspects like German Tchncs and French La Quadrature du Net (they also host other alternatives to big tech platforms like peertube)

> What I hear is that there was an outage that took all of bsky down, as well as centralised moderation.

"all of" is accurate only in the sense that there's one major appview right now, but it wouldn't take down all of the independent PDS hosts. Anyone using an alternative appview wouldn't have been affected.

There is centralized moderation for the bluesky application, but not at the protocol level.

Honestly I found starting my own mastodon server less work than trying to figure which of somebody else’s servers to use.

I’m not sure as to the future of bluesky, but they are committed to having a distributed network, and have been before they even launched.

I think claims to the contrary are sour grapes.