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Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet (www.wired.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You mention the costs of running a relay as mentioned in the Christine Lemmer-Webber piece, but since that piece was written, Bluesky made a significant update to how relays work, making them much cheaper to operate. Bryan Newbold made a blog post about how he managed to run a relay for $34 a month. Dozens of people run such full-network relays now! Christine Lemmer-Webber herself even first assumed those were not pulling the full network, but later corrected herself!

It remains to be seen how well all of that will scale if the network continues to grow, but can we please please move away from completely exaggerated claims like "it costs millions to run an independent node"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Oh, very interesting!

Seems like the blog post and Christine's updates are quite new, maybe they deserve their own post here in the community?