I've been doing a lot of digging into this lately... Their architecture is completely different than Fedi/ActivityPub, as they want to replicate the "global network" feel of Twitter. Because of that, it's never going to have the same "communities that can also talk to one another" feel that Fedi has.
They DO now have a distributed network of "personal data servers", or PDSs - including ones owned by the community - but that's not federation in the same sense as, say, Mastodon. As far as I can tell, everything still relies on BlueSky's Relay (previously called the BGS or Big Graph Service).
More details here: https://social.beaware.live/@BeAware/113101470288348371
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npub1yx…amdm2
2024-09-13 02:31:06 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…d77z
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