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hooverd 2 hours ago

Mostly because having a big centralized firehose relay is less decentralized than people want to admit.

danabramov 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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...

chokolad 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why is that a problem if you can host relay for $50 per month as TFA mentions?