>Why would someone use a walled-garden instead of a protocol ?
>It's a very similar feeling for Bluesky.
Is this actual wondering on your part, or are you just rhetorically framing these as questions, as a means to express frustration? I mean, it's extremely easy to come up with an answer: they are much better-known platforms, have much larger user bases, and provide simpler and quicker initial access. That's all there is to it. In the case of Bluesky, though, you have to take into account the political stances surrounding how the platform is viewed as well.
> I mean, it's extremely easy to come up with an answer: they are much better-known platforms, have much larger user bases, and provide simpler and quicker initial access.
Can you share your sources for the "much larger user bases" ? It's hard to get the figures, I just googled them for 5 minutes and got contradictory results. Some pages say 30 million daily active users (DAU) for discord, some say 150. Slack seems to be at 30 million.
For Matrix, the official site says "The open network has grown from 80.3M to 115M addressable users." but there was only "250 DAU" in january for matrix.org, the public instance. The French gov's deployment of Matrix says 0,3 million DAU. https://element.io/case-studies/tchap
>It's a very similar feeling for Bluesky.
Is this actual wondering on your part, or are you just rhetorically framing these as questions, as a means to express frustration? I mean, it's extremely easy to come up with an answer: they are much better-known platforms, have much larger user bases, and provide simpler and quicker initial access. That's all there is to it. In the case of Bluesky, though, you have to take into account the political stances surrounding how the platform is viewed as well.