To be honest I have no idea of what this discussion is about anymore. If you stated the parts on which you agreed with me it would ease my confusion -- but I'll try to clarify now:

I guess I can say that (1) we both agree Bluesky is not decentralized today; (2) you think it can be decentralized if and when more people start running more BGS and AppViews, I don't think that will happen and even if it does it will be inconsequential; (3) you think Bluesky has some cool features like custom feeds and I agree; (4) you think Bluesky is getting really big because of these cool features and I think they play a very minor role in their growth.

Good summary?

You also seem to think Nostr is broken in many ways and not innovating enough, but these points are vague to me. I would like to know what cool features could or should be added to Nostr and what is more broken so we can try to fix. 

 I don’t *think* it will necessarily become properly decentralized, but rather that it totally *could* and they are working toward it (whether they run out of resources before they get there I dunno), thus I think dismissing Bluesky as “not decentralized, next” is naive.

But I can tell you for sure there the “custom feeds” feature, at a minimum, led to substantial early adopter/evangelist momentum. To a much lesser extent the decentralized labeling/moderation/censorship feature as well.

Even if they didn’t drive material user adoption, they’re cool features we should be learning from, not dismissing the whole thing “because it’s not decentralized”. 

 IOW there seems to be a string desire on here to dismiss Bluesky for trivial reasons (“not decentralized”/“they got MSM coverage so the user growth doesn’t mean anything”/etc) rather than admit they’ve built a product that resonates with a large number of people and that has cool features we should learn from! 

 Censorship resonates with a large number of people! Great! We are building for everyone else. 

 I think having an algorithmic feed resonates with people a hell of a lot more, certainly drove early adopters. 

 But, yea, people love filter bubbles (censorship being just one way to get that), that’s why most people are on nostr, too! :p 

 isn’t it just true to say that it’s not decentralized? There is a board, a legal entity etc. 

it *can* change, but as it is today, it is centralized. Not some “string desire”, seems to be just objectively the case?