I agree, though a more accurate summary is that their goal is not decentralization but providing an easy exodus from any rogue instance of itself. More specifically, Bluesky cannot control your own relay if you self-host it, but you must host basically the entirety of Twitter, including everything that was moderated.
except, its not. they control the keys to the kingdom and will until they change some fundamental parts of their architecture.
heres a great indepth, technical read on why bluesky controls even your ‘independent’ ‘instance’
https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
I agree, though a more accurate summary is that their goal is not decentralization but providing an easy exodus from any rogue instance of itself. More specifically, Bluesky cannot control your own relay if you self-host it, but you must host basically the entirety of Twitter, including everything that was moderated.