Stop Trying to Fix Bluesky. Decentralized Social Media Is a Trap.
Bluesky’s user base is shrinking, and it’s not a bugβit’s a structural flaw. As the company pivots to prioritize the AT Protocol over the app itself, it falls into a fatal catch-22. The hard truth is that decentralized protocols are engineering marvels but attention economy disasters. Here’s why the dream of an open social network is a beautiful, empty trap.