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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually, you can host a full-network relay for $34 a month: https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3kwzl7tye6u2y (article by a bluesky engineer).

All the other pieces are self hostable, PDSes are trival to host, and would cost less than $5 a month.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All the other pieces are self hostable, PDSes are trival to host, and would cost less than $5 a month.

No I think they still have control over the decentralized identifiers, ironically

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also: a lot of stuff from that article isn't really accurate anymore.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

yeah, honestly I wish them luck

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

You can use a web did.

But yeah, did:plc is a joke.