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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why is it so expensive to federate Bluesky?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Because there’s a lot of content and, unlike the fediverse, you kind of have to mirror it all (which is good for users but bad for admins).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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Why is it so expensive to federate Bluesky?

Mostly because it depends on certain centralized services. You can create your own apps and even host your own content, but the discovery and distribution system has a copy of every post so that it is easy to access by everyone. The positive side is that you don't have to worry about missing replies in the conversation since their centralized database has a copy of it. The downside is that hosting such a massive database is expensive.