Gregory's ServerBluesky is a completely decentralised network that requires a large Relay Server as the centralised dependency
here's a bluesky dev who tried setting one up as an example
tl;dr $153/mo bare metal at OVH for this test
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 @davidgerard how much of the push for decentralisation is to decentralise the astronomical costs of running a social media site rather than an ideological belief that it somehow provides better freedom/security @iain the fediverse is actually peer to peer, but centralising functions works so ridiculously well that you end up with small servers taking feeds from large ones, e.g. circumstances.run pulls its "all" feed from infosec.exchange  "storing repo data as millions of small files on disk" whut "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE bgs TO bigsky;" oh no "focus here is on the compute resources" Good thing that it is and nobody reading this would learn any other lessons from this document. |
@davidgerard Thanks @bnewbold, interesting numbers!