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But that IS the point. The possibility of running independently PLUS the ability of bluesky users to migrate their account wholesale away from bluesky servers to 3rd party servers means you're not dependent on them.
They're literally designing for the principle of "the company is a future adversary" (see: Twitter, et al).
Yes and the thread I linked to explained why it is not looking like it's particularly well thought out for that case. Even beyond those issues they've always seemed very naive about what the company turning adversarial would actually be able to do but then again they obviously also have to worry about making money.