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Not being able to host a personal mastodon instance from static files was a big reason I abandoned the network I know bsky doesn't have this option either, but the AT protocol appeared much closer to offering static hosting than AP

not really what you're looking for but @wisp.place is a static site service that serves files from your PDS @iame.li I think you vaguely tinkered with this idea or said something about an "almost static" PDS on stream. I realize there's websocket stuf

yeah you basically need websocket support if you want relays to work. so "some files on S3" is no good but it is possible to, say, ship a Docker image that has all the data baked in ahead of time and then can handle WS requests. easiest if you just store the firehose as the canonical data