Walking atproto idea: apropros of the at home PDS product for everyday people. A little box that you buy and plug-in at your house it runs some flavor of linux with the PDS and maybe some sidecar services already installed on it. Scan a QR code to connect your domain with Marque. 1/
Jun 25, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Adversarial ATProto PDS Migration | Blog
An ATProto account lives on a Personal Data Server (PDS), and that service needs to be hosted somewhere by someone. There are a lot of options here, like a Raspberry Pi in your closet, a rented VPS in a datacentre, or a batteries-included service like bsky.social.
Embracing ATProto, part 1: Setting up a PDS
In this series of posts, I'll explore my journey into setting up my workflows and services for atproto. The first step is setting up my PDS. Let's start with a bit of explanation for all this lingo.
Self-hosting your PDS | jola.dev
How to set up your own atproto Personal Data Server using tranquil-pds and docker compose, walking you through it step by step.
Setting up my own ATProtocol PDS - Blooym
Details of my adventures self-hosting my own ATProtocol Personal Data Server (PDS), including the painful debugging process.
jack ❄️ (@j4ck.xyz)
atproto box: beefy raspberry pi to locally run a small appview, pds, relay and local bluesky web client :D
atpota.to/aturi
Tour the Atmosphere. Switch clients, share universal links, browse any PDS.
atpota.to/aturi
Tour the Atmosphere. Switch clients, share universal links, browse any PDS.
How do we talk about atproto to non-developers?
The beauty of AT Protocol is that all of your data from different apps is available on your PDS, your own folder on the internet containing your stuff as JSON. This means that you can switch which app you use to view that data, without losing anything. It also makes it very easy to make connections between data stored using different lexicons, or just display activity in one place. Sifa does a nice job of this on your profile page. For web developers, and people who understand webhosting, the concept is reasonably easy to understand. I know that any atproto app I join is going to store data in my PDS, any other people will be able to see it.
PDS Directory | ATProto PDS Index
Complete directory of Personal Data Servers in the Atmosphere.
the single most important part of atproto is the PDS as a user-controlled auth and storage layer to which clients can connect directly. death to appviews
Authenticated Transfer Enables Orchestration - nekomimi
blog.nekomimi.petJust learned about FediSky, a project by @msonnberger.com that adds an ActivityPub instance sidecar to a PDS. Think Bridgy Fed except hosted by the PDS owner or Wafrn except reversed. Still in early dev, but keeping an eye on this space 👀
Interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #1716
github.comJust learned about FediSky, a project by @msonnberger.com that adds an ActivityPub instance sidecar to a PDS. Think Bridgy Fed except hosted by the PDS owner or Wafrn except reversed. Still in early dev, but keeping an eye on this space 👀
Interoperability with Mastodon/ActivityPub · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #1716
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