alt Hacker News> What's expensive is if the app you're making is a fully capable copy of Bluesky itself with gigabytes of existing posts
This is the implicit idea in my comment when I said it's expensive. If Bluesky banned me and I could not find another AppView with comparable reach and audience, I lose, the ban is effective.
Another problem is ATProto users don't usually associate then with an AppView the same way Mastodon users associate with the instance, it's hard to raise fund to sustain the infrastructure cost.
>This is the implicit idea in my comment when I said it's expensive. If Bluesky banned me and I could not find another AppView with comparable reach and audience, I lose, the ban is effective.
Okay, but that's always the case when you get banned from a service. The difference here is that it's possible to build a competing service with different moderation decisions being a lens over the same data.