• Public

  • Public
  • Network
  • Groups
  • Popular
  • People

While operating a small PDS is designed to be cheap, operating an indexer that ingests the entire network requires greater comput- ing resources. We therefore expect that there will be fewer hobbyist indexers than self-hosted PDSes. Nevertheless, as Bluesky grows, there are likely to be multiple professionally-run indexers for var- ious purposes. For example, a company that performs sentiment analysis on social media activity about brands could easily create a whole-network index that provides insights to their clients. Web search engines can incorporate Bluesky activity into their indexes, and archivists such as the Internet Archive can preserve the activity for posterity