> [running a relay being cheap and easy] wasn't asserted anywhere
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> I recall posts of people running their own relays on RPi4s with NVMe drives
I would absolutely consider software I can host at home, on a RPi, cheap and easy to self-host. That's the assertion that's being called out here. Bluesky's relays do not scale down easily, and are difficult and expensive to host
That's expensive and difficult compared to running a PDS or appview (either of which can run with a tiny fraction of even an RPi's resources), which is exactly what I said. And to reiterate: an RPi4 with an NVMe SSD is very far off from something that's production-ready and suitable for public use. You can run your own relay, but it's probably not going to handle 30+ million users like Bluesky's relay does, or like Free Our Feeds' "second relay" presumably seeks to do.
- You don’t understand what a relay does in atproto given the rest of your reply and should look.
Compared to the hardware required to run a PDS, yes, absolutely. "Expensive" is relative.
And like I've said above, a Raspberry Pi with an NVMe drive is surely a long ways off from Bluesky's own relay. It's good enough for personal needs, not for any sort of production use.
> You don’t understand what a relay does in atproto given the rest of your reply and should look.
I'd appreciate specific corrections, so that I (and anyone else reading these comments) can be better-informed.
(EDIT: my apologies for the previous version of this comment, which might've come across a bit hostile. That ain't my intention.)