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  • I mean I’m hosting my own instance there.

    Hello,

    I’m curious, this is a personal PDS, so other people cannot register on it, right?

    Yeah I don’t get why people are so judgy towards it here on lemmy.

    The current state of Twitter probably makes people here very cautious about anything that might look similar to pre-Musk Twitter without any mechanism preventing such a scenario to happen again.


  • Yes but they have communities within their instance. With ATProto everything is published to the protocol so there’s no inherent internal community, the instance is just the infrastructure at that point, not a community.

    Ah, thank you for this. Indeed paying for infrastructure without any real community feeling isn’t really attractive.


  • Sure people can do it but why would the host pay hosting fees?

    Fediverse admins pay fees for their instances. BlueSky requiring such high fees to run your own instance seems just a hidden way to prevent people from actually creating federated instances.

    If Bluesky went down a path of introducing advertisements or became a pile of shit then there’s true incentive to host your own independent PDS/Relay/App View.

    So if tomorrow Elon Musk buys BlueSky, the only alternative for people to keep using the AT Protocol and stay federated with BlueSky without being under Musk’s control would be to be running that very expensive relay?