Yeah I'm a huge believer in federated systems but I believe that a lot of 'normies' going to bluesky is a huge step in the right direction. Even though most don't know anything about the tech behind it and migrate because twitter has become a bot infested right wing hell scape, they still are one step closer to being fully integrated to the fediverse.

lucky for us, we aren't running out of jumps.

Pseudo-federated from what people are saying. Something about the user accounts being centralised but the data being decentralised. I don't understand but it's something funded by the previous owner of Twitter and full of other corporate money, so I wouldn't trust it.

In theory, yes. In practice, it's a bit different. At the very least for now.

https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113487613965056474

I believe it's sort of tacked on and not exactly federated at the moment. Also it's corporate run

It calls itself federated, but it's false advertising.

In theory, yes / kind of.

In practice, no, not really.

It uses a different protocol (AT protocol) than the Fediverse ActivityPub protocol, which is what lemmy and mastadon and pixelfed are all built on, so it is not natively interoperable with ActivityPub based Fediverse.

To do that you have to use bridging software of some kind.

Also, as others have pointed out... even if you do make the approximate equivalent of your own instance, a PDS... all of these still go through 'Relays', which BlueSky controls.

So... it is technically federated in the sense that it allows for anyone to make their own instance/PDS... but ultimately it is actually totally centralized.

Instead of a web or weave of many to many connections of independent admins/maintainers, the structure much more resembles a top down hierarchy that is ultimately all controlled by a profit driven corporation.

If the Relays go down, everything goes down.

If BlueSky decides they don't appreciate your instance, they have unitary power to delist or block it, from everyone.

As compared with the Fediverse, where many different instances and communities can all pick and choose for themselves which other instances and communities they do and do not federate with, and where an outage particular to one community/instance only bricks that particular community/instance.

seriously.

please show me a single, fully independant instance of their platform that federates.

you cant, because it doesnt exist.

Bluesky Social has pledged to transfer the protocol's development to a standards body such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the near future.[11]