Samuel
been thinking about this. I think the best form factor for a PDS is bsky.social + a phone app that holds your PLC keys and also performs automatically repo backups. so you can just adversarially migrate with one button press while still using a big hosting provider for uptime, for free
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shreyan (wise)
yes!! i personally think that should be built into the bluesky app so every user automatically benefits from it without knowing
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
2 years ago I would’ve agreed but: - regular backups from 30m users is a hell of a lot of wasted bandwidth - people tend to reinstall apps, wiping the keys - it’s not really a benefit unless you’re techy enough to use it which pushes me in the direction of a sidecar app for people who care
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Samuel
there’s also the thing of every line of code I add to this app is just a little bit more of a maintenance burden. but we’d do it if we had a compelling reason to
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