This whole thread is a good explainer for people who still wrongly think Bluesky is a resilient/user-run/federated network like Mastodon is.

[jonah@mastodon.neat.computer]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116415973849880514

This whole thread is a good explainer for people who still wrongly think Bluesky is a resilient/user-run/federated network like Mastodon is.

The reality is that Bluesky requires infinite VC money to fully replicate, whereas Mastodon can run totally self-sufficiently on a Raspberry Pi.

[karlpoe@infosec.exchange]

@jonah mastodon can't quite run on rpi, unless you either have a beefy rpi, or use some trimmed down version. But yeah, many fediverse servers can run on rpi easily (gotosocial comes to mind).

[gabboman@gabboman.xyz]

@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Wafrn servers werent affected by the outage and other people using alternative apps were able to use atproto. Hell i was talking with a bunch of them during the day of the event.

Imagine your main instance being down and then being able to post to your followers by just opening another app

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@karlpoe @jonah a frictionless spherical raspberry pi in simple harmonic motion

[castanea_jo@ni.hil.ist]

@jonah nope, blacksky didn't go offline, they do not have infinite vc money.

[jonah@mastodon.neat.computer]

@castanea_jo as the thread points out though, Blacksky still remains entirely reliant on Bluesky’s operation for federation outside of Blacksky. Whereas if mastodon.social went down I would not need to care in the slightest.

[derek@www.glidden.life]

@karlpoe @jonah I actually ran this instance for quite some time on a rpi 4 with 4GB of RAM. It worked fine, except it would lose wifi every so often and go offline, which was enough to encourage me move it to the main server. It worked happily for over a year though.

[karlpoe@infosec.exchange]

@derek @jonah yeah, I guess my rpi with 2GB was a "poor man's edition" It failed to even compile the assets. It is still running gotosocial, tuwunel, and sesrxng though