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The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet (www.404media.co)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There are already smaller appviews that use the existing hosting/authentication infra, but bypassing the bsky appview aggregation. Nothing with any real scale but for example there is a barebones reddit/hackernews equivalent https://frontpage.fyi/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's interesting. This post had suggested it isn't yet possible to host an AppView. It seems the reality is more complex.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That post refers to hosting an appview that does all the same things as the official bsky (the service) one, which involves a ton of storage and bandwidth and processing (for everyone's recommendations, notifications, and all the other moving parts), and is closed source to boot.

Frontpage.fyi is a lot cheaper simply because its used by like 50 people tops.