nostr:npub19yvw53sm8xn9xxry4vtg90vca6fhynnkdurlspq84fv60a8qac2stx8wl8 Admittedly, I’m doing some reading-between-the-lines, but IMO, it’s implied:

“The federation architecture allows anyone to host a BGS, though it’s a fairly resource-demanding service. In all likelihood, there may be a few large full-network providers, and then a long tail of partial-network providers. Small bespoke BGSs could also service tightly or well-defined slices of the network, like a specific new application or a small community.”

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

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nostr:npub19yvw53sm8xn9xxry4vtg90vca6fhynnkdurlspq84fv60a8qac2stx8wl8 The BGSs are called “Big Graph Services.” In name alone, this implies they’re too big for individuals to run. The protocol docs go into more detail about how BGSs work: https://atproto.com/guides/overview

In that doc, they have this interesting sentence: “As with Web search engines, users are free to select their aggregators.”

They want to build a “marketplace of algorithms:” https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-30-2023-algorithmic-choice