The lack of decentralisation atm is not inherent and reflects the early growth stage. If they started to act like wanks there’d be a greater push to fork and build up parallel instances. Last I checked they were still working on improving the scalability of the protocol before building it out.
Relay only costs a few hundred to run, regular people are already doing this. Also have Jetstream as a lightweight alternative.
Barrier is running your own AppView, but people working on that:
https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q
The lack of decentralisation atm is not inherent and reflects the early growth stage. If they started to act like wanks there’d be a greater push to fork and build up parallel instances. Last I checked they were still working on improving the scalability of the protocol before building it out.