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The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet (www.404media.co)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Whether it soon becomes possible to self host an AppView, the one remaining centralized component will tell us a lot about where it's headed.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    There are already smaller appviews that use the existing hosting/authentication infra, but bypassing the bsky appview aggregation. Nothing with any real scale but for example there is a barebones reddit/hackernews equivalent https://frontpage.fyi/

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's interesting. This post had suggested it isn't yet possible to host an AppView. It seems the reality is more complex.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    That post refers to hosting an appview that does all the same things as the official bsky (the service) one, which involves a ton of storage and bandwidth and processing (for everyone's recommendations, notifications, and all the other moving parts), and is closed source to boot.

    Frontpage.fyi is a lot cheaper simply because its used by like 50 people tops.

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