Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)1d ago

OK, let's try this again. 😅

I want to completely move my ATProto account off of any infrastructure controlled in any way, shape, or form by the Bluesky corporation.

I am told all of my posts and every aspect of my identity can be migrated, because ATProto rocks. Cool beans! Tell me where to migrate everything to, and I'll go there.

HMU!

Show threadJamie Gaskins

@jaredwhite I've been trying to figure this out for a while, too.

My understanding is that you can host your own PDS, which is the authoritative source for your identity and your own content. The Bluesky relay scrapes your PDS (somehow?), and Bluesky users see your posts that way.

What's less clear to me is how you would read posts from Bluesky users if you're not using their relay and/or app views. I think that part is still centralized or you have to run your own relay, which is expensive.

Mar 23 at 4:00amWeb
Show threadKuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦23h ago
Yeah, you need an AppView that indexes the whole network to read posts from others. Right now only Blacksky has an alternative one in production (I *think* it indexes some things lazily, not sure exactly) - you can use it on blacksky.community. But Northsky and Eurosky also want to have one.
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