Comment on Is it currently possible to completely self-host ATProto and interact with BlueSky users?
surfrock66@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is a good breakdown. A firehose relay takes TB’s of storage and is not practical for self-hosting, and AppView isn’t hostable yet: alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q
Zak@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s enlightening. It links to an article about self hosting a relay, which explains that, as I suspected, a relay does not have to mirror the entire network. It also seems that using a relay at all is an optional optimization.
It looks like the BlueSky AppView is not (yet?) open source. I wonder why nobody has built an alternative yet.