@smallcircles @janvlug

Fediverse have a lot more features.

I opened once bluesky - it has no privacy features, I did not find any, my impression was everything is open, broadcasted globally.

For comparison, mastodon settings is full of privacy toggles. @Bonfire even have circles and extra permissions, with coming encryption, and account data migration, and groups etc.

And made by the people, not entshitified, as mentioned above, which is also very important. Also truly decentralized, has local community feel.

But Bluesky have other advantages:
1) Money
2) Focused team.
3) Stronger momentum.
4) It is larger network, because people like centralized platforms and flock in there.
5) Governments usually like big business, so such approach might be attractive too.
6) I just researched, it is also evolving protocol. They plan privacy features called "Atproto Spaces", and „groups“ in the future https://atproto.com/blog

If I would be government, I might use ATProto, but since I am not government, I may suggest NL government to invest and promote fediverse, so to strengthen it. Maybe investigate bonfire, because it is very innovative full of features,
and finance forgejo federation (as you already use it, except it would cost a lot and take time) @forgefed

Forgejo (and project management) federation would be amazing.