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I don't actually want to do this right now, but I do want to know if it's really decentralized yet. Completely looks like it means each of:

  • A client ✅
  • A personal data server ✅
  • A relay ❓
  • Labelers ✅
  • Feed generators ✅

It looks like the relay might be the bottleneck. If I'm understanding the protocol correctly, a relay could consume less than the whole network so it doesn't have to be ridiculously expensive to operate, but I'm not finding examples of people doing it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

From my experience, how people expect it to work is to be centralized and neutrally hosted, with instances acting as dumb portals, mainframe+terminal style. So it cannot work as people expect and be decentralized.