Link without paywall

Unfortunately you can’t follow users on Lemmy. On Kbin, Mastodon and others, you can follow Bluesky users through Bridgy Fed but they must opt-in first by following @ap.brid.gy (which very few people do)

Wait, is it required to mirror the entire Bluesky history? Can’t you just store only new messages? Because the storage requirements (4.5TB according to the article) make it almost impossible to self-host.