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this is honestly pretty much what atproto is "Can We Get More Decentralised Than The Fediverse?" #atproto

How so? Have you guys determined how much it would cost monthly to run your own PDS node or whatever? Because that guy is talking about it like you paying a couple bucks like you would for a web host. I was thinking of it more like an entire Mastodon instance with potentially thousands of users.

I don't know the exact numbers but actually, yeah, an atproto pds is designed to be fairly cheap to run, for the same reasons this person is talking about

Cheap enough ISP's would offer them as part of standard package of services? i.e. here's your free e-mail and oh yeah here's your free point-of-entry to fediverse

A lot still provide an e-mail address, but not necessarily by default. It was the standard for a long time though. A typical dial-up would run their own NNTP servers as well. This helped make it easier for consumers but also meant non-portable e-mail addresses.

actually a really good example of how non-portability is a centralizing effect, bc I remember that being one of the major draws of gmail