“This was despite the fact that ATProto basically does everything he wants in a decentralized social protocol, but he prefers the more Bitcoin-y community of Nostr”.

right off the bat ATProto collects your email & phone number when you sign up, NOSTR does not, so ATProto basically DOES NOT do everything nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m wants in decentralized protocol