Bluesky has seen a large inflow of new users following the results of the US election, and a significant amount of media attention as well. All that attention to Bluesky has also led to a renewed conversation around the question of whether Bluesky is decentralised or not.
The terms decentralisation and federation are used in multiple ways: to describe the technological architecture details of an internet protocol, but just as often as a shorthand to describe whether or not a (digital) network is open and not under the control of a central authority. The second definition is the one I