It would already be bad if they only used a "global" server for content discovery, but no, they also use that for the normal feed building anyway, instead of the outbox model.
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Some independent dude over there just made a proper relay that (if I understand his thread right) the entire BlueSky AppView could theoretically run off of—and the relay cost per month would only be like $20. (An AppView of the size of bsky.app is always gonna be hecka expensive, so cost of running the AppView another thing altogether, but on the relay side that's pretty interesting.)
That's interesting, but it's deleting data after 48 hours and having trouble connecting to 40 PDS servers?
How does it decide what users it will fetch posts from?
Where's that from? Maybe that means mushroom servers? Each bluesky mushroom PDS box has something like 500,000 individual users (PDSs) in there, I forget the number but it's a lot.
I read it in the thread, maybe I misunderstood it but doesn't matter.
The other question is more important, and it's not even a rhetorical question. When you register on the Bluesky app do they make a special allowance on their relay for your account? Or do they label your account with something that tells the relay to fetch your posts? Why can't nostr:nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhggpt7fy's Bluesky bridge automatically put all of Nostr's content inside Bluesky?
Relays choose which PDSs to index. I think there's some way for independent PDSs to send an HTTP request to a specific relay and be like "yo pls index me" but I don't know if it's roadmap or live. Anyway the relay could always ignore that.
For pushing nostr content into Bluesky, something tells me the Bluesky team trusts Bridgy Fed more than Alex Gleason Inc.
I guess if Alex made his own AppView and spun up one of these budget relays he could use that AppView to hydrate whatever content and relationships from whatever PDSs he wanted (bsky.app hosted or nostr bridged/programatically controlled) and keep track of timelines and all. But then you'd need his client to see the combined universe. And PDSs would be outside hosted.
On the topic of Bridgy Fed though, here's the Bridgy Fed guy's talk from the ATProto conference a few weeks back. I think he likes nostr, cause at the end of the talk he talks up nostr as some sort of destination where things are converging or something. Watch to the end. Maybe he's a sleeper agent for you.
ahahah, thank you for linking to these talks. The talk is very good, the comparisons are cool to see.
Interestingly, since the beginning he is painting Nostr with a good light. I didn't know he liked us so much, and didn't expect him to be so open about it in a Bluesky conference.
Nice to see this honesty, and great overview.
What is Ryan’s nostr native npub?
Found via AP bridge
nostr:npub192zgfvxl3xukuwld7fcd3l88un9rxxynsxd4fay4pj3x9cgxrh2qvxegjh