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Yep. You can even go right into the source code and find out if it is truly decentralized. And right now, ActivityHub is and ATProto is not. Maybe at some point it will be (which I hope will happen regardless of bluesky) but at the moment, it is not.
Both have some P2P components but one of the big ones from ATProto:
"The answer, if you guessed it, is centralization. All direct messages, no matter what your Personal Data Store is, no matter what your relay is, go through Bluesky, the company." which you can see more clearly starting here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/01f2bd13eb62a0aef43bfdad7594dd69f58bc9f5/packages/pds/src/pipethrough.ts#L94
I tried to get one of the ATProto relays up and running but I didnt have nearly enough hard drive space to get all the data. Whereas I host quite a few federated services that include ActivityHub on a tiny server.