I saw it mentioned in this Cory Doctorow article a week or two back about some of his issues with bluesky, but he mentions here that the cost has came down from tens of millions a year down to tens of dollars a month
Hadn’t heard of wafrn until seeing it on f-droid this morning but I might give it a try, a tumblr-like platform would be nice since tumblr seems to have given up on using ActivityPub.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
A lot of people’s research about bluesky is just the “How decentralised is bluesky really?” article by Christine lemmer-webber.
While the article was good at the time, and still has some relevant parts, a lot has changed since then.
Namely, relays got cheaper to run (about $30 a month).
Right now the problem is that everyone uses bluesky’s infrastructure (and PDS migration is a bit spotty, but bluesky is working on that).
Also: AP is pain. The spec was rushed and doesn’t include a lot of key details. Atproto was better thought out (at least in my opinion).