maybe it’s semantic but i don’t see how it ever could be.
i see this as distinct from “decentralized” (in its various meanings), and i too have hope atproto could achieve that
again tho i don’t see the former as a negative thing. AP is properly federated and is a lovely case study of why it sucks. certain kinds of social anarchists have stumbled into the same pitfall (the context i’m more familiar with)