Notices by The Real Grunfink (grunfink@comam.es), page 3

@stefano
It's also part of what seems broken over in the Bluesky world: sure, it's "federated", but only if you have a huge investment in infrastructure.

From Bryan Newbold's defense of atproto¹, "Our design goal is not to run the entire network on small instances…This architecture facilitates big-world indices…Such indices are not cheap at scale!"

But I want my federation to be so affordable that anybody can get a domain-name, spin up a $1/month VPS instance², and participate in the fediverse. Things like snac make the completely feasible. So thanks, @grunfink!

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¹ https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lbvbtqrg5t2t
² https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

@grunfink snac is an example of how the Fediverse should be: sustainable, easy to run and compile, free from dependencies.

@grunfink For what it’s worth I believe the small buffoon & all other middle-sized clowns play a very important role in the battle.

The more I look at it, the more I feel that minimalism & most of all cost effectiveness is a central weapon against corporate control.

They’re making FB & Instagram free on your cell’s 4G while direct human information exchange has to be paid. Any effort at minimalism reduces the gap between access to the voice of billionaires and access to ours.