Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 months agoThere 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.