So wait if #bluesky is an open and distributed protocol, why do people need to get on a wait list to get permission to join? Does it have a central authority? 
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@Polychrome exactly... Falling well short of any promises so far. I'm also not sure why people are so quick to forgive and forget... If the definition is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result, what was the word again?
Some kind of a goldfish memory effect.