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How so? Have you guys determined how much it would cost monthly to run your own PDS node or whatever? Because that guy is talking about it like you paying a couple bucks like you would for a web host. I was thinking of it more like an entire Mastodon instance with potentially thousands of users.

I don't know the exact numbers but actually, yeah, an atproto pds is designed to be fairly cheap to run, for the same reasons this person is talking about

bryan newbold

@bnewbold.net

don't want to over-promise, but you can run a smol PDS for like $5-10/month and can probably fit a couple dozen friends on that, if they aren't all top-1% prolific. over time image storage could creep up, but can put that in blob storage (eg, S3) pretty cheap. video could be a whole other story

yeah. another factor that could increase the costs is if we introduce the private comms layer at the PDS level

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shreyan (wise)

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Private comms at the PDS could get... weird

what are you thinking of?

shreyan (wise)

@shreyanjain.net

Since it's private data and only the PDS should have access to it that makes adversarial exit a little more complicated than it is for public data

ah, yes. the precautions for adversarial exit would probably be the same either way though: active backup and recovery keys, just private includes backup of the private data the privacy model is another interesting question, which gets us into e2ee

bryan newbold

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