Cyborg

I assume the main reason is that ActivityPub is a mess and quite overcomplicated for bsky's needs. Being permanently tied to it seems like a big risk. There's no reason why they couldn't make a compatibility layer later and hook into it.

It's pretty common... Some people with low self esteem flirt for attention. It's fucked, but it's sad for both parties, really.

Same dude. The only way to get over it is to get out there and try again, unfortunately.

"You guys" Bro the only us and them are billionaires and everyone else. Stop being distracted and focus on the problem, the fuckers siphoning any and all value away from honest hard working people and then blaming other less fortunate honest hard working people for it.

Mastodon is gatekept to hell and back, the technicalities of federation are exposed to the user for some reason (you already lose half your potential user base right there), infighting between instances means that you won't see the entire discourse of a post depending on which instance you're at...

And besides all that, bsky is not as "corpo" as mastodon fanboys make it out to be. They're on track to open up to privately hosted instances as well, and you can already run most of their backend stuff yourself.