The fact that the system is built around this escape hatch makes it miles better than almost all other social networks. An escape hatch doesn't need to be used by most people to be valuable.

Nostr doesn’t have these issues

I know when I’m using a Nostr app because its logo is an endless spinner.

At the scales these systems run at, you need large indexes. Distributing those indexes across many nodes would require a breakthrough in federated queries, and if you have one of those lying around I’d pay good money for it.

Indeed, and as a consequence Nostr has a dogshit user experience and approximately noone on it. Boy I sure love reading nothing and talking to nobody except nerds that jerk themselves off about how decentralized their platform is.

Nostr has different issues, people are where their preference for dealing with them is

It's weird to focus on that when there isn't a single thing in software that doesn't suffer from "everyone will just use the default anyway"

yeah I'm not saying the blog is right or wrong; I'm just saying that describing bsky's features and asking "what's the issue?" means you aren't engaging with what it's actually saying.

I’m not the previous poster, but I don’t see any cogent points in the article to engage with in any depth.

If you look at OP's comments here, I think the same sentiment will come through. They do not seem interested in good faith debate or discussion.

I am, I just don’t have the same values in terms of what I want from my decentralized social media.

Saying you do does not change what others see across your comments. I'd suggest reading the HN guidelines again. I do myself from time to time because there is some good internet decorum wisdoms in there. I hope by reading them, you can see your comments more like how we see them.