None of this feels like the result of any technical limitations. I'm pretty sure they're just trying to maximize their engagement metrics at the expense of Mastodon. IMO Threads should be defederate until they "figure out" how to implement actual federation.

Someone has been flooding Bluesky with bots that use ChatGPT to respond to random posts, disagreeing with whatever the author says in a polite but annoying way. I have no idea what the goal is, but it kind of just makes it feel like Twitter before generative AI

The BlueSky wiki is absolutely hilarious