There is a depressing irony about a story on an effort to decentralize social media being published on a centralized social media platform. It feels like decentralized blogging will never come back, even though we have Ghost (not to mention Wordpress) right there.

With Bluesky being backed by VC it feels like only a matter of time till its inevitable enshittification, and it's not clear to me if users will be able to insulate themselves from that by moving to other instances. It would be cool if we start to see a bunch of blueskies, just like we have mastodons, lemmies etc. I haven't been too optimistic about Bluesky vs those other fediverse platforms because I wasn't aware of any other ATproto instances in the wild, but I guess someone has to be the first so I wish these folks luck.

I wouldn't say it's too depressing. It's just that's the platform the interviewer uses. Often bluesky adjacent blogs are posted via Leaflet (atproto based blog) nowaday. It's not always but tbh I see them more than I see substack in my circles now.