bluesky is more federated than threads, but less federated than mastodon. As I understand it, you can more or less host your own bluesky “instance”. Though it is difficult to do and some parts you have to build yourself, it is technically doable. This is not the case on threads, I believe.
One state has consistently voted for democrats and one consistently votes for leopards. It isn’t really surprising that the state consistently putting leopards in power is unhappy with their current situation.