not at all: atproto works very differently. fedi instances “do it all”, on atproto pds-es hold content, relays discover and aggregate, appviews show stuff. iirc relays can also implement moderation (such as blocks or bans). right now to my knowledge the only relays are bluesky’s and blacksky’s (because hosting a relay is very resource intensive)
Dang, I honestly have no idea what any of this means.
Eurosky is running a relay, a piece of infrastructure in the atproto/bluesky network.
Ah, thanks for that! Would it be similar to hosting an instance?
not at all: atproto works very differently. fedi instances “do it all”, on atproto pds-es hold content, relays discover and aggregate, appviews show stuff. iirc relays can also implement moderation (such as blocks or bans). right now to my knowledge the only relays are bluesky’s and blacksky’s (because hosting a relay is very resource intensive)
Relays are actually really cheap to host (about 30 euro/month). Relays can do moderation , but it’s mostly just removing spam or illegal content.
ah i’d categorize 30/mo as expensive :) i pay around 8 eur and have email, matrix, minecraft and jellyfin running!
Well, compared to the estimates some people came up with ($5000/month was a figure some people were throwing around a bit ago).
Its possible to gather data in alternative ways too, like constellation.
IIRC the issue was that the relay can also function as a mirror/archive of posts. That’s a lot of data and gets expensive.
Relays don’t archive data anymore.
Thanks, I really appreciate the insight!
So with this bridge, how can people on the Fediverse end follow people on the Eurosky end?