The other key thing you lose is your identity. In the fediverse, your identity is your Webfinger handle, ie @[email protected]. Your server is literally part of it. Sure, you can migrate to @[email protected], and keep the username part, but your identity still changes.
Truly portable identity via DIDs, ie you can keep your underlying identity even if you migrate servers, is one of the key reasons the Bluesky team made their own protocol. https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub
OP here. Definitely! Both of those are important too, SSB especially, it's been around for so long. Plus Rabble has been vocal in fediverse and Bluesky development and now actively building Nostr stuff.
(And I'm actually all for multiple protocols, especially right now when we're still fairly early in the space's mainstream growth. Much better to experiment with lots of different ideas now while we still have a bit of breathing room!)
OP here. Sure, they finally anounced the new pricing, months late, but all of the evidence in the post that it's effectively unmaintained still stands. The hostile new pricing just adds to the lack of support in convincing me not to waste any more of my time developing for it.
snewman's comments have addressed most of this. (hey steve!) i'll just add that HRD has more predictable read and write latency, which most developers like a lot, but its writes are also slower on average, since they incur at least one Paxos round across datacenters.
Truly portable identity via DIDs, ie you can keep your underlying identity even if you migrate servers, is one of the key reasons the Bluesky team made their own protocol. https://atproto.com/guides/faq#why-not-use-activitypub