> It really doesn't seem realistic for anyone to run any of the infrastructure themselves. You're always going to be reliant on a big player that has the capita

> It really doesn't seem realistic for anyone to run any of the infrastructure themselves. You're always going to be reliant on a big player that has the capital to keep everything running smoothly I run a custom rust-based firehose consumer on the main firehose using a cheap digitalocean droplet and don't cross 15% CPU usage even during the peak 33 Mb/s bandwidth described in this article. The core team seem to put a lot of intention into being able to host different parts of the network. The most resource intensive of which is the relay which produces the event stream that Jetstream and others consume from. One of their devs did a breakdown of that and showed you could run it at $150 per month which is pricey but not unattainable with grants or crowdfunding https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Notes%20on%20Running%20a%20Full-Network%20atproto%20Relay%20(July%202024) https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Notes%20on%20Running...