Well that didn’t take long. Looks like they’re going the discord route and locking uploads + basic customization behind a subscription. You know, because we don’t already have enough of those.
Bluesky is working on a premium subscription that will add features like higher-quality video uploads and some profile customization options.
Pretty much this, I’d be willing to bet that even the most popular Lemmy instance likely has half or less of the active users and daily added content compared to where blue sky is right now.
Sure Blue Sky could Federate as far as I’m aware it is possible I think they technically have a back end for that somewhere but it wouldn’t have gained popularity like that because normally users absolutely hate the ux of multiple instances. To be honest I kind of do as well I’m here because I’m not going to use Reddit anymore. But the ux of finding content on Lemmy is atrocious. So many spread out instances tons of duplicated content between them but you kind of need to follow a lot of them for the non-duplicated content and just kind of find a way to deal with the duplicate cross-posted threads between instances… even then finding stuff can be annoying it’s just not a good experience