Bluesky's founding contrast with X was never primarily about features — it was about whose side the platform was on. The November 2024 pledge against training AI on user content was institutional positioning, and it worked: it drew a community of creators who had watched their work absorbed by the platforms that hosted it. What Bluesky built as a tool to free users from social algorithms becoming one of the platform's most blocked accounts is not an irony — it is a structural outcome. A community recruited on the premise…