valaramech

My understanding is that running most of BlueSky is possible on small to moderate hardware. However, running all of BlueSky requires basically cloning 100% of all the content on BlueSky (which, as of Nov 2024, was ~5 TB).

So, like, yes, one can run part of BlueSky or a clone of BlueSky which has none of the main instance’s user’s content without much trouble, but actually running an entire BlueSky stack is eventually going to become cost prohibitive.

I found this write-up to be enlightening on the subject.

We don’t do that here

Unless you live in California, they kinda do.

I use uMatrix (uBlock’s big brother), so sites that do this generally lose first-party JS privileges real fast.

Have you met these people IRL or online? Most of the people I’ve met online do fall into one of those two buckets, but almost nobody I’ve met IRL does.

I would assume this is selection bias before attributing it to some other thing. The kinds of circles you run in are going to heavily affect this.

LAMP is a programming stack used by a couple fediverse projects. It usually stands for “Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP”; the primary components in the stack, though Perl or Python sometimes replace PHP.