• @Zak@lemmy.world
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    71 month ago

    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.

    • @aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      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/

      • @Zak@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

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

        • @aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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          1 month 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.