Bluesky Personal Data Server

[jdaviescoates]

@jdaviescoates said in Bluesky Personal Data Server:

For starters self hosting a Relay needs at least 4.5TB space.

As per https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t this has already increased to 16TB!

So, yeah, hosting a Bluesky Relay not really a viable thing to individually self host.

But I guess the PDS more viable.

BTW this thread and the linked blog exchanges well worth a read

https://social.coop/@cwebber/113647109852249805

In short: Bluesky / ATproto is not (and will not be) really very decentralized. Still better than X though.

[scooke]

@jdaviescoates said in Bluesky Personal Data Server:

Still better than X though

Anything is better than X, on principle!

[rmdes]

Most people would be more interested to run their own PDS than a Relay I think, it's probably going to be bit by bit, i'm not expecting Bluesky to be born in a desired state of perfection because nothing on the internet is ever born that way but I do hope that over time more and more parts of Bluesky will able to be run by users if they choose so

[nichu42]

What advantages does it have to self-host a PDS?

[jdaviescoates]

@rmdes said in Bluesky Personal Data Server:

I do hope that over time more and more parts of Bluesky will able to be run by users if they choose so

If you read that thread and linked posts it's pretty clear that it'll never be very decentralised.