Reading this article, and especially the end …
CEO Jay Graber told The Verge that the plan is to hand over control of the AT protocol to a web standards body like the Internet Engineering Task Force.
… it almost sounds as if Bluesky is (going to be) as community-run as Mastodon.
But I’m suspicious. What is the catch?
As far as I know, no one has demonstrated that they can successfully run their own instance and have it integrated with the main Bluesky infrastructure as easily as the spec authors have claimed.
Until that happens, all the talk about federation and open standards is just that - talk.