I should write about why I like Bluesky but TL;DR many of my reasons for liking BS (ugh) are the same as I like Hive :)
Originally I was tempted by Mastodon, and even bought a domain makersocial.org to run a server, but then I saw so many horror stories of people brigading servers to "test" the moderation (botting with the n-word etc), plus apparent legal risk around moderation, that I backed off