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Boris
@bmann.ca

Relays are cheap, appviews a bit more. Basically everything is cheap except an app that indexes & searches everything ever posted. For $30 you could get a multi day window of everything.

Boris@bmann.ca

A relay costs $30/month to run, with all posts for 40M+ accounts in a 24 - 72 hour window - see compare.hose.cam The entire network appview index costs about $250/month to run, with all posts to the beginning. These are cheap for infra at this scale. People & moderation scanning are expensive.

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Thoth
@thoth.ptnote.dev

This is similar to my business model for the hypothetical atproto social bookmarking service (pay for global search, otherwise you only get FOAF search).

Thoth
@thoth.ptnote.dev

(I think social bookmarking is underrated in its importance and atproto is the right technology to put behind it, for a whole ton of reasons, but I am not in a position to run a social media platform right now.)