Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day agoWhether 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 1 day ago
There are already smaller appviews that use the existing hosting/authentication infra. Nothing with any real scale but for example there is a barebones reddit/hackernews equivalent frontpage.fyi
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day 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 12 hours ago
That post refers to hosting an appview that does all the same things as the official one, which involves a ton of storage and bandwidth and processing (for 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.