yeah that was my bad I might be a little stupid.

I got confused between the relay crawling pdses to store their records for retransmission vs an appview storing records for serving them to clients. Both involve processing similar (v large) amounts of data, but the latter is actually more expensive because you’re also transforming the data to make it useful to clients.

They have said that in production, their appview takes up about 30 servers while the relay takes only one. Apologies for the rude tone of the post bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/…/3lku2o3n6es22