JKR isn't American.

For context: jk Rowling

If you get banned on mastodon, you can’t move your followers to another server

This actually depends. Mastodon has several ways of 'banning' a users, and apparently 'frozen' users can migrate their followers.

Someone got banned for saying rude things towards JKR.

Sure, but admins still have the power to make it impossible for you to migrate, whereas bluesky does not.

I mean those followers wouldn't mean much if Bluesky stopped indexing your profile though, unless they also jumped to an alternative relay.

I don't want to labour this point too much, I generally agree with you that Bluesky handles this better and it's the direction fedi should be heading.

I mean the name alone was a nail in the coffin. Bluesky for blue MAGA.

The good news here is that Bluesky has made enormous progress in true federation. The cost of operating a full Bluesky stack has fallen from tens of millions of dollars per year to tens of dollars per month

Great!

But Bluesky, the company, still needs serious work.

As things stand, Bluesky has very bad terms of service that every user who creates an account has to subject themselves to. In particular, Bluesky's ToS contain a "binding arbitration" waiver that forces users to surrender the right to sue Bluesky no matter how the company harms them. This is so pro-enshittificatory, it's like a landing strip for the sole use of Enshittification Airlines, which can land a 747 full of enshittfying nonsense on Bluesky's users every 10 minutes, around the clock, without worrying about any legal repercussions.

This is less great.

Edit: Wait, what?

The new waiver says that you don't have to arbitrate for "claims that fraud, criminal misconduct, or gross negligence by Bluesky caused death or personal injury." That sounds good! It also sounds like everything that someone might sue Bluesky for, leaving me to wonder what Bluesky will make you arbitrate for.

What's more, if the point of a binding arbitration waiver is to reduce nuisance suits and threats, this completely nullifies that tactic, because all a nuisance litigant has to do is claim that they are suing because of "fraud, criminal misconduct, or gross negligence," and Bluesky is back in court.

I'm more confused now.

I don't know that the name had anything to do with it, but it definitely is a BlueMAGA watering hole with all the vibes of a portapotty after a 3-day festival in high summer.