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Apart from getting funded by crypto-bros, BlueSky promised to allow federation, and hasn't. Seems any time VCs or talk of IPOs happens, the only way is down.
Why would people be eager to have a place like them joining the fedi? When Meta was first looking to add in threads there was a big push to tell every admin they need to proactively defederate from it. They may not be as notoriously bad as Meta when it comes to using and abusing the population, but it's still a commercial entity with the ability to do so and a will for profit.
If BlueSky were federated it would mean you could move to another server and keep the followers you built there. All the Big Tech offerings keep you locked in, and at risk of losing the work you put in at their whim.
Yes, but I was comparing it to why is BlueSky welcome but Threads is not? Frankly I'd just as sooner keep all commercial entities out of the fedi, but there's no way to stop them from adding that functionality.
Not that there's anything stopping some instance of established fedi space from going rogue, sweeping up data and feeding ads either, but at least that's not their established model today.