Beyond Bluesky: Community infrastructure

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, ...