Viral marketing 😂 you’re paranoid mate go touch some fucking grass. God this platform is a cesspit.

The “how so” is evident if you try to use any of these platforms regularly. ActivityPub based platforms chug slowly and/or just don’t load feeds at all. Mastodon and Pixelfed have been very disappointing. The software is heavy to run and the monolithic structure means your provider has to run everything in one stack. If that stack can’t keep up with demand at any link in the chain, the whole thing falls over

As for why they’re waiting, they’re waiting on public release because they’re in active development. They are working with a number of independent devs. This is all explained in the ATP documentation.

As for why you should trust them, the question is trust them with what? If you don’t trust them with holding your data, self host your PDS and you can host your account and all it’s posts yourself. If you don’t trust their feed, you can use one of the community’s many other feed algorithm options.

Personally I don’t have a problem with the current “distributed data, centralised presentation” model since you still have the option to select your own feeds.

I highly recommend reading both the ActivityPub and ATP docs as they’re both freely available and easy to read. The difference in design philosophy is apparent in both, and anyone who’s ever worked on webscale projects will be able to see why ATPs more distributed model is more scalable.

ATP is also federated, and the model is much more scalable than ActivityPub. You’re already free to host all of your Bluesky account and all your posts on your own PDS. They’re opening up the other services to federation as they reach maturity.