Remember when Netflix was totally dead and doomed when they cracked down on password sharing? And then it turned out people just upgraded to the new plan and kept on consuming.
researchers found that in the wake of the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov and charges against leaders of the so-called Terrorgram Collective, dozens of extremist groups have moved to the app SimpleX Chat in recent weeks over fears that Telegram’s privacy policies expose them to being arrested.”
Reposting is not a problem, it's an NSFW server, nobody will downvote repeated content. What was getting down voted were dudes and chubby women showing off.
I cannot affirm with certainty there is correlation, but the main page is far more diverse in people and content since the removal of the downvote, and constant reposting is not a thing I see (at least for now).
It may be easier because Bluesky already made the choice for you, you don't need to pick an instance, the default is Bluesky Social and that's it, if you want a different one you can search it or make one. It removes that tiny mental block of having to commit to a server you don't know if you will like.
Well, there is a small problem: he screwed over rich people, that's a big no no.