> being independent from Bluesky requires owning a DNS name and paying for it yearly—a big step backwards from Mastodon where a group of users can come together

> being independent from Bluesky requires owning a DNS name and paying for it yearly—a big step backwards from Mastodon where a group of users can come together and live on a server run by an admin they trust In the DNS, that’s called a subdomain. I.e. a group of users can come together and buy a domain name and all use different subdomains, completely without any additional cost per user.