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> The BGS handles "big-world" networking. It crawls the network, gathering as much data as it can, and outputs it in one big stream for other services to use. It’s analogous to a firehose provider or a super-powered relay node.

"Big-world" networking by Big Tech-to-be Bluesky with super-powers, I wonder? Is this BGS also going to be federated, or is that the big centralized beating heart of this platform managed exclusively by BS?




There can be multiple BGSes (like there are a few Web search engines) but it's expensive to run so there probably won't be many. Alternative designs are either more expensive or don't have the same features.




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