I don't know why you're being downvoted. I tried it the other day and this is indeed how it works. I could even see my home traffic rise and fall over the course of the day in time with activity on the network.
It seems quite reliable that Bluesky gets down voted. Whether it's mastodon/Fediverse folk or right wing pro twitter philes or both, I dunno, but it sucks to have aggressors out there, dark forest freaks sniping away.
I try very hard to find the positive & to upvote things I don't fully agree with, if well argued. I wish the social network of HN could do more against adversarial zero-sim thinking, didn't have people who insist on draining.
PDS's to hold users data, relays/firehoses to aggregate & forward traffic, AppViews to create composite views of likes, replies, etc, resolvers to lookup DIDs, clients to access the network. Each of these has independent implementations. BlueSky is already decentralized & already has viable credible exit. It's not decentralized, and indeed the scalability & accessibility of having firehose consumers has the greatest scale out decentralization characteristics we've seen anywhere short of BitTorrent.