I am very confused about this fascination with people jumping on Blue Sky like that is going to solve all of their problems. I am trying my best to parse this, so I'm leaving space here in case there is something I really don't understand about the setup of this thing.
Blue Sky is an offshoot from Twitter. They have received 13 million in funding from Twitter so far, and as far as I know, have some form of loose connection with them still. There is a basic app in there at the moment that has little to no moderation (save apparently for catching the word "cracker" but not a lot of other ones), but that they will be decentralizing the system at some point in the future allowing for instances to setup their own moderation. For a "for profit" corporation like them, externalizing all the expensive stuff about moderation to everyone else makes sense because I'm sure that cost Twitter a lot of money and time to work on.
For the time being though, there is only one instance that everyone is thrown into, and at some point in the future (who knows how long) they will open up the systems for federation. What it will cost to create an instance who knows. What requirements those instances will have to adhere to in order to federate with the central system, who knows. Will Blue Sky force instances to communicate with each other even if one of those instances is really awful, and a local admin for the instance wants to protect their users from that instance? Who KNOWS!
So everyone wants to jump ship to this thing that is funded by Twitter, has some loose affiliation (maybe nothing, but again, who knows!) with Twitter, has anti-vaxxer Jack on the board, where every post is viewed by an AI company to train their AI's with, and where the posts are called Skeets. I really... really feel like Mugatu right about now.
All of this is happening despite a decentralized, open source, and public system already exists. The non-corporate thing already exists, and works... but instead of using it (because it was "confusing") folks want to do this corporate thing instead? Is there really something here that I'm missing?