alt Hacker NewsMostly because having a big centralized firehose relay is less decentralized than people want to admit.
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chokolad • today at 5:40 PM
Why is that a problem if you can host relay for $50 per month as TFA mentions?
Mostly because having a big centralized firehose relay is less decentralized than people want to admit.
Why is that a problem if you can host relay for $50 per month as TFA mentions?
That's not true.
It's not centralized in any way that matters. The Relay Bluesky uses is open source, you can run your own for $30/month if you really insist on doing that, it's trivial to pool between multiple apps if you want to lower costs, and there are already a few independent ones you can just use directly now, for example:
- https://pdsls.dev/firehose?instance=wss%3A%2F%2Fatproto.afri...
- https://pdsls.dev/firehose?instance=wss%3A%2F%2Feurope.fireh...