Seems like Mastodon/ActivityPub and AT Protocol are solving for opposing problems. Maybe the compromise is a centralized service?
Yes.
Centralization is inevitable and normal users only care if they can use it easily or not and don’t have to choose a instance or set up their own mail server, instance, or whatever.
As always with typical techies, the emotions put into this post were already running high given Bluesky itself has gotten someone extremely angry over the tiniest things.
You (probably) and I have both had a more tech oriented upbringing. Current and future urban generations seem to be more tech oriented, anyway, so perhaps we, who probably form the majority of tech consumers, will become these "normal users" we condescendingly refer to in this forum.
With sufficient investment in education or at least awareness, the "normal users" may eventually be privacy and freedom oriented.