Well,
> Are you thinking about advertisements at all?
>
> There will always be free options, and we can't enshittify the network with ads. This is where federation comes in. The fact that anyone can self-host and anyone can build on the software means that we'll never be able to degrade the user experience in a way where people want to leave.
https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-wont-ensh...
This reads as definitive to me personally.
> we'll never be able to degrade the user experience in a way where people want to leave
Neither of those is the same as "no ads". They're just saying that they can't make the ads so bad that most people want to leave, because then people will leave and the ads won't be shown to anyone.
Bluesky doesn't have the ability to do this. There's no API key to revoke that could stop someone else from running parallel apps/infrastructure/etc. The network is completely open.
I'm about as anti-ads as it gets but I don't object to other people using apps with ads in them, if that's their choice.