Until reading the linked article, I just thought they'd launched too early, before their federation and self-hosting stories were in place. But if the article is correct and nearly all "federation" will just be post & attachments storage, then Bluesky's AT Protocol is truly a waste of time.
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that's what i had assumed too, that we were just "early" to the protocol and platform. maybe things will change later on, but as it stands now, it doesn't look like it?