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Mastodon as a software also has extreme power on fedi.
And the cost part is not entirely correct. There is appviewlite, wich is easily self hosteable and very light.
The problem arises when you get to bluesky scale and say “I want to store every post of everyone”. Blacksky does this as example, and its not easy nor cheap.
Wafrn only stores posts from people users follow or are replies or mentions. Not gona lie, my search sucks! But can be improved (except the full text search on posts, it can and will be improved).
User search is easy to build a directory of users with handle, description and avatar and integrating it. Hell, maybe it already exists as a microcosm service im not aware haha
There are also applications that do not use appview like red dwarf.
The protocol is flexible in a different way than the model of activitypub.
gabboman the wafrn dev
npub1an…c2unq
2026-04-18 22:33:18 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…8u0k
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wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-04-18 22:33:18 UTCEvent JSON
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