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David Thompson
@flockofbirbs.bsky.social

Its simply too expensive to setup alternatives to the bluesky relay and appview. If there's only a handful of them then it's nearly as easy for a government to block all access, or for a ddos to take out a large portion of the network, etc. then if there was just a single provider.

Sherif EA@sherif.mu.social

Yesterday Bluesky went down. @eurosky.social servers worked but we couldn't communicate as we don't have an app. Our next step is to build everything we need to operate without Bluesky. We're raising €100,000 to build a European app backend supporting 100k+ users. Let's do this fund.eurosky.tech

fund.eurosky.techAccelerate building an independent European social webThis week Bluesky went down. This is why our vision for a fully independent European social web matters. You are the first users of Eurosky. You are the community making this vision a reality. We are ...
Boris
@bmann.ca

It costs as low as $5 to run the atproto (not Bluesky) relay. Yes, an AppView that has a full text index of microblog posts optimized for search for 43M accounts is going to cost some money. It still costs less than Hachyderm costs. The network works without those features. Use @reddwarf.app

fig (aka:[phil])@bad-example.com

full-network atproto relay on a $4.20/mo VPS demo.tiny.hose.cam still getting connected to PDSs, we'll see how long it survives...

demo.tiny.hose.camhttps://demo.tiny.hose.cam/ .########..########.##..........###....##....## .##.....##.##.......##.........##.##....##..##. .##.....##.##.......##........##...##....####.. .########..######...##.......##.....##....##... .##...#...

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Christine Lemmer-Webber
@dustyweb.bsky.social

There's a lot of great work happening in bringing ATproto to a greater degree of decentralization than it was before! I'm not saying otherwise. I'm just saying this particular example doesn't convince me yet "it only costs $5"

Simon Fondrie-Teitler
@simon.overgrown.garden

I wonder how much of atproto having fewer alternate infra providers for some services than Mastodon stems from atproto splitting out a bunch of the functions into different services where the value to the user/community isn't correlated with the cost of running the service.