How decentralized is Bluesky really? nostr:npub1s7kf9vtmyl2vwzwmhrkfvc66t28xlvh5c9dxgdcn2celskacu2gs0qeul5 has a great essay digging in to it and looking at the design decisions that make Bluesky work but also really hard to decentralize. 

Nostr is mentioned several times, we take the mantle of an actual decentralized network by making it work really well. Interestingly Primal is the best Nostr client ecosystem and they’ve also had to introduce centralization to make the experience work well. 

If you care about social media protocols and want to get in to some of the details about how then work, then read this essay. We can’t build Nostr effectively if we don’t understand what others are doing. 

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/