I can’t be the only one who finds a lot of these new federated social networks to be a bit fishy… the whole idea is really great but bluesky & now metas “threads” are really only pseudo-federated. They both claim the future option to choose your instance but by default you start out on their centralized instance. This feels like a predatory tactic to be able to control the average user who doesn’t care about the value of decentralized networks.