[nightpool]

Right, and I'm saying "surely there must be a middle ground between "using all of Bluesky's infrastructure" and "having a 4.5tb copy of every post ever made on the network""

[lisowski]

What exactly would that be?

I feel like the middle ground your talking about could be just a feed?

A feed is: a server that consumes the firehose and decided on whether to store posts, when loaded in the app it returns some post to create a feed

So essentially you only store references to part of the network rather than storing the whole thing

[jonstaab]

consider the nostr protocol