alt Hacker NewsAtproto gives users choice for where their data is hosted as well as the ability to migrate their data to a new host. Users who dont want to put trust in a provider can host it themselves. How is that not an improvement over being locked in to a single centralized provider?
The end of the article explains why this isn’t necessarily better than a centralised service. Yes - you can self host but no one (yes, there a few exceptions) does in practice. Your PDS host can pretend to be you on any atproto application.