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Not in expert in either but ATProto services (what they call AppViews) are substantially different from the fediverse because they rely on a shared relay instea
by kajman 6mo ago
Not in expert in either but ATProto services (what they call AppViews) are substantially different from the fediverse because they rely on a shared relay instead of explicit federation.
I'm conflicted about the costs of what is currently effectively global discovery, but it's not just another Mastodon.
E: I think its funny multiple other people said the same thing in the time it took me to write this
- danabramov 6mo agoNote a relay is a perf optimization and doesn’t have to be a single shared chokepoint. These days running a relay is fairly cheap (~$30/mo?), there’s maybe a dozen of them, and some apps don’t use one at all (instead relying on services like https://constellation.microcosm.blue/ https://constellation.microcosm.blue/ for querying backlinks).
- account42 6mo agoThen Twitter is also just a perf optimization for talking to the users directly.