The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim founder and benevolent dictator for life (BDFL), in 2023 sent a shock through the community, and raised concern about the future of the project. At VimConf 2024 in November, current Vim maintainer Christian Brabandt delivered a keynote on “the new Vim project" that detailed how the community has reorganized itself to continue maintaining Vim and what the future looks like.
BlueSky actually is federated, AFAIK: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture
It does use its own protocol (AT instead of ActivityPub)