@Mastodon@mastodon.social For those on the fence between Mastodon and Bluesky, see this 2024-11 article by @cwebber@social.coop comparing their two architectures. https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ My summary: Bluesky is an improvement upon Twitter but not decentralized due to cost: servers need datacenter-level compute and storage to collect and integrate all messages. In contrast, you can run Mastodon in a closet since it's more like email: each server is only obligated to push messages to recipients from those they follow.