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Beyond Bluesky: Community infrastructureGreat Hall South · Conference Day #1
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Bluesky, a VC-backed company, runs public infrastructure that's widely depended upon by ATProto builders.
Microcosm, a set of community-funded open-source infra, supports dozens of ATProto projects and growing.
I'll dive into AT-protocol-specific economics of operating and scaling public infrastructure, and look ahead at how we get to a sustainable and diverse infra future. All grounded in the day-to-day reality of actually running big indexes, caches, relays, jetstreams, a PLC mirror, ...
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