I see, you probably meant that the cheap VPS instances should be enough to run the whole thing?
I'd appreciate it if anyone could correct me; I still don't know enough about Bluesky and whether what I've read is not outdated.
What I've read was so so confusing. It's like somebody who got used to building only centralized systems so much would want to encourage others to help them to run one.
The whole system in practice appears to be some hybrid of a federated/centralized system. Some kinds of servers are possible to run by independent individuals on cheap VPSes, but a particular one (AppView) required 16 TiB disk space in 2025 and cost somebody $200/mo to host. If it's still that weird design—it's easy to censor this thing.
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2026-07-31 03:22:30 GMT
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