And, that same centralization can happen to Nostr too, and there is already evidence.
I could easily make an argument how Pubky is the only design positioned to actually allow for both decentralization AND scale in a self-sovereign-compatible way.
There's a lot of information available regarding the architecture:
https://medium.com/pubky/pubky-the-next-web-3287b35408f1
It appears to have a credible decentralized design.
However, your point about ATproto/Bluesky is a good one. That was supposed to be decentralized but, in practice, it's extremely centralized and even more censorious than Twitter/X.
ATproto is essentially just ActivityPub with DiDs. Everyone ended up on a single instance, Bluesky. Just like in the Fediverse, the instance operator calls the shots.
Pubky has a radically different architecture that emphasizes mass distribution of data, control, and discovery across a large number of servers.
If everyone ends up using Synonym's homeserver and nobody spins up their own homeservers, then Pubky might end up looking more like Bluesky than Nostr.
However, in that scenario, it would be the userbase, not the architecture, that failed.
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