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Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back? From my understanding: Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned. opencollective.com/blacksky

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James GHOULizio 👻

@theswweet.myatproto.social

6 Oct 2025

Wait BlackSky is still part of BlueSky's relay? That would make sense how I was having issues posting when BlueSky was down a few weeks back...

Aveta👾🇭🇹

@aliafonzy.blacksky.app

6 Oct 2025

From my understanding yeah. Relays are expensive. Based on convos I saw Cc @botmatrix.myatproto.social who been in most convos. Same with @lizthegrey.com

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

@lizthegrey.com

6 Oct 2025

a few hundred dollars a month at most for a relay. within reach of a group of tens of people, not within reach for individuals.

Boris

@bmann.ca

6 Oct 2025

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.

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

@lizthegrey.com

6 Oct 2025

Even that latter thing is just begging for "save it to S3 somewhere, charge to search it on demand"

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).

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Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

6 Oct 2025

(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.)