Some independent dude over there just made a proper relay that (if I understand his thread right) the entire BlueSky AppView could theoretically run off of—and the relay cost per month would only be like $20. (An AppView of the size of bsky.app is always gonna be hecka expensive, so cost of running the AppView another thing altogether, but on the relay side that's pretty interesting.)

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fig (aka:[phil]) (@bad-example.com)

your point of tens of millions its like $20USD/mo (i massively over-provisioned disk), and any full-scale bsky app could run off it. like literall...