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Isn't Bluesky an open-source implementation of an open protocol? And isn't Bluesky already a for-profit organization? The point is you don't trust the corporation. You trust the availability of the code and the protocol specification. People should be setting up instances just like they did with lemmy.
Sort of, but not quite...It's intentionally done in a way that in no way scales well and quickly becomes cost prohibitive for small players (not just individuals) to run a server because it requires an insane amount of data and bandwidth. So in practice you can only run a server if you're willing to throw a shitload of money after server capacity.
That's not true at all actually, running a PDS uses about as many resources as a regular personal blog HTML server (as it doesn't do anything but serve up your signed posts), and running a relay with only the couple thousand people that have decided to host their own PDSes is home self-hostable.
Good blog post here clearing some stuff up: https://whtwnd.com/alexia.bsky.cyrneko.eu/3l727v7zlis2i
Facebook creating a bluesky instance in 3... 2... 1...