well, it’s a convenient feature, but for people who don’t like Google, obviously they won’t like this

the reason there arent relays is that theyre expensive to run (150$+ a month, if you rent, and the cost seems to scale linearily with the amount of users on the network), i saw a blog about someone who hosted one briefly (https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/entries/Notes on Running a Full-Network atproto Relay (July 2024), and it isnt even that hard to setup, it’s mostly just the cost.

Also, relay’s aren’t technically needed, you could make an appview that pulls from pds’s directly.

according to Cory doctorow (pluralistic), trumps gouvernement will likely selectively enforce antitrust, so the Google case would go through, but cases against, say, tesla would be dropped.

all you have to do is

1. host your own PDS, where your account lives, this is easy, I do it myself already.

2. host you own appview: the only actually good appview is bsky’s, luckily it’s open source, unfortunately I do not believe they made it easy to self-host.

3. Host a relay, this isn’t all that hard, it just needs a real big server (AFAIK it needs a shitton of io throughput), so unless you’re very rich it’s not too realistic to host this.

So yeah, a PDS is easy to host but the other two parts are a pain, and since the protocol has only been open for a few months, people haven’t really done too much.

Frontpage exists, but they haven’t made it be able to interact with bsky.Social, although the accounts are shared. I have been told by people involved with that that that’s an issue with frontpage’s implementation, and not the AT protocol

do you have a good guide on how it works/ho to set it up? I tried a little while ago but couldnt figure it out.

I’d recommend you use Matrix, you can always ignore messages if you dont want to answer them right away

why usenet over torrents?

as a quebequer, i avoid putting the space in french too, just looks wrong.

Good to know i was right, i will now carry this newfound confidence into every subject

Thanks, that’s what i figured.

I got confused by so many game servers using seperate domains for the site and server, i assumed there was a good reason for that

i’d like to know too

While i do like how hypixel does it, hypixel has a LOT of cheaters, even in an environment significantly less conducive to them than stuff like valorant and apex.

thank you!

true, forgot about geothermal.

i would have been able to build it quite a bit faster had i not wanted it to be pretty

Funnily enough, there are no renewable energies available

They wouldnt die if they didnt impede on my automation, exploration and exploitation. So really, it’s their fault.

Because i didnt need them, i thought i may as well leave them free incase i need them for something else

edit: i am going to use them for my computer manufacturing

That’s the thing, it’s on an alien planet, so the only ones at risk are the horrible aliens

Thank you! The rig and surrounding infrastructure took 40-50 hours.