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Hi! SkyFeed is struggling and I need to find a solution. If you don't know SkyFeed, it's a service I built 2 years ago, enabling anyone to build and publish feeds using a visual block-based editor. SkyFeed is still hosting the most feeds on Bluesky, but that comes at a cost [1/X]

Let's get straight to the point: Renting servers for hosting all 75k+ SkyFeed feeds for millions of users daily costs me ~1094 EUR/month SkyFeed is 100% free, so the only income is my GitHub Sponsors (github.com/redsolver) with ~191 EUR/month The math does not quite work out here.

I do DevOps, are there any optimizations we can make to lower the server costs?

The most effective optimization is really the new architecture, because the old one was built in the early days of Bluesky and never designed for massive scale. So while tuning individual feeds and optimizing some knobs did help and reduce resource usage, they were mostly band-aids.