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1. As far as I know, there aren't any yet. Even if there were, I personally wouldn't trust them for the same reason I wouldn't use any Mastodon instance besides mastodon.social: if the PDS shuts down abruptly, your account is gone forever.
2. Bluesky and ATProto are designed specifically to hide the ways in which it's decentralized.
3. I think this post does a good job visualizing how AtProto is different from ActivityPub.

This is for if you want to host parallel infrastructure. If you only want to self-host your own data, the instructions create a PDS are here, and the instructions to migrate an existing Bluesky account to that PDS are here.

I'm begging google to just bring back YouTube Premium Lite and expand it

It might seem really funny but TikTok is so far YouTube's most formidable competitor so far.

Because there are a lot of dishonest people who claim they're only criticizing Hamas, when they are actually calling for violence against all Palestinians.

"Harbu Darbu" is a perfect example of that.

People here just downvote anything they don't like even if it's in its own community

Finally, a competitive YouTube alternative

To answer your question, it's inertia. People need to be forced of Twitter if before they join Mastodon/Bluesky/Threads

God I can't wait for that website to die already

Masterful gambit sir

Are there any potential repercussions for sticking a utility knife into the speaker grill?

There's an upcoming project to bridge Mastodon, nostr, and Bluesky, but it's not out yet.