| ▲ | jauntywundrkind 2 hours ago | |
You already could host either the web app, the knot (the repo), or the spindle (the runner) yourself, they were just harder to run yourself. I think it says a lot of good things that you can one by one pick which pieces of the system you want to host where! It is a social network so I'm not sure what the issue about yes needing to read the network is. There are really good relays designed to help aggregate and filter the network. They can run on $5 VPS, processing the entire network, which is awesomely cheap, not just Tangled, which is awesome, what I would call a huge win. Paul has a talk on designing for scalability, about how it's possible to have such small boxes doing the network aggregation with so little resources, that appviews can then consume their interests from. solving for scale in open social networks, https://youtu.be/BoJnj2yPf14 The servers are definitely not keeping the whole network. The post talks to this some, but the new Knot2 retains a local copy of repo-relevant material (comments prs etc) in its own git tree, that collects what the network has done together, and makes it easy to ship/replicate, while also using that as a sync source to replicate back into atproto too, to make network visible. Agreed that I really wish ForgeFed were showing much more clear progress. It seems like such a good idea, but it's been a number of years now and it's super murky what the progress is and where we are. Having >1 viable player in the decentralization of forges would be great. I haven't checked in a bit but I do read Forgejo release notes and my impression is it's been a very slow trickle. | ||
| ▲ | max-privatevoid 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
When you say "they can run on a $5 VPS", do you mean that the entire server will be dedicated exclusively to processing ATProto data? I run an ActivityPub server on my $5 VPS that allows me to interact with everyone else on ActivityPub, and that VPS is hosting a lot more services than just that. | ||
| ▲ | rapnie 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> Having >1 viable player in the decentralization of forges would be great. There are other projects other than Forgejo implementing ForgeFed. Forgejo itself has some federation support but AFAIK not based on ForgeFed. But they have a community contrib project that does. - https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation - https://codeberg.org/activitypub-rs/activityforge - https://frogue.vit.am/~ololduck/Frogue Gitlab has a community epic to add ActivityPub support, but that needs contributors: | ||