I’m coming back to this,

I think the self-hosting bit is a bit flawed, its almost entirely based on opinion.

For example, I’d have taken a lot of points from email as its all too easy to get blacklisted for doing everything right, and setting up everything is a pain. Cory Doctorow (Author and popular blogger) got on a spam-blocklist for self-hosting his newsletter, and it was an effort for him to get himself off it. It would be impossible for an average joe to get off a blocklist.

You can self-host old versions of reddit, I’d have given it a few points.

Self hosting a PDS is pretty popular, but the average PDS has less users than mastodon instances.

Its also not very poorly documented, hosting the official PDS is just running three commands: atproto.com/guides/self-hosting#preparation-for-s… . they have a docker for it as well.

Maybe not bluesky itself, but there is lots of atproto AppViews (essentially clients) which do stuff. Would you classify frontpage.fyi as a client?

There is clients for bluesky itself anyway, graysky, deck[.]blue, AppViewLite, the official apps, deer[.]social gander[.]social tapestry, surf, phoenix (made by the people who made ivory), skeets (real app), bluejeans, off the top of my head.

I think the content share part doesn’t really apply to bluesky since everything is portable, so if bsky disappeared, all content would still exist and be referenceable. Unlike AP based stuff, where everything is tied to its host server.