Bluesky has been independent from the start, but it took six months of negotiation in 2021 to set it up that way, and from the outside during that period it looked like the project was going to remain vaporware forever. Very glad we are alive today — it very easily could have turned out otherwise. 

 but you could have helped grow #ActivityPub instead. it was proven. make an alternative but compatible version of #Mastodon more similar to Twitter with ads if you wanted. I don't get it. 

 What’s not to get? If you take this same thinking and apply it to all of technology we’d be in a horrible position. ActivityPub didn’t suit their needs. It also was as much of a cultural issue than a technical one. I don’t understand what you don’t get