@nprofile1q... of the 350+ folks at ATmosphereConf, I think I met… four people from Bluesky? The rest were indie developers contributing to an open source project and community, building their own little indie projects and businesses around something genuinely technically exciting and empowering.
And I’m just not that interested in what a billionaire thinks about it tbh. (Just remember he literally had an incentive to make it look bad because he wants his other venture to compete…)