Running Bluesky PDS undockered
A bit over a year ago, in the first week of January 2025, I migrated my main Bluesky account to my own PDS on a Netcup VPS. It’s been quite easy to set up using the official installer, and it’s been running pretty much without any problems or maintenance the whole year.
Bluesky PDS
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PDS Entryway | Bluesky
Bluesky runs many PDSs. Each PDS runs as a completely separate service in the network with its own identity. They federate with the rest of the network in the exact same manner that a non-Bluesky PDS does. These PDSs have hostnames such as morel.us-east.host.bsky.network.
Progress on Auth Scopes Implementation (August 2025) · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #4118
Since our last update on Auth Scopes, the Bluesky team has been hard at work adding support to our reference PDS implementation. Aspects of this work are starting to roll out in the production netw...
Proposal: OAuth-based account creation · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #4587
We recently added to the reference PDS (and underlying OAuth Provider) implementation support for Initiating User Registration via OpenID Connect 1.0, however, what I wasn't aware of when I add...
Anniversary
Blacksky Algorithms turns one. Announcing blacksky.cash for private payments and blacksky.tech for one-click server hosting on AT Protocol. Launching 2026.
Blacksky PDS
NO MORE INVITES TO THE COOKOUT. AT Protocol Personal Data Server operated by Blacksky Algorithms.
Tweets 2 Bsky | BlueAT Network - A Bluesky PDS
BlueAT Network offers a service no other PDS ever has, X Account mirroring.
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High scale open social, unlocked for every builder. Bluesky operates public infrastructure for the AT Protocol — Jetstream, Relay, and the Bluesky API — as open services anyone can build on.
Blacksky was one of the 1st PDSs to allow open sign ups We are also now the largest PDS deployment that doesn't run any of bsky's code Sorry for the turbulence. It was the one-time price to pay for being able to build features like private accounts or sign-in via phone number w/o waiting on Bluesky
Sep 15, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Making good progress on hosting an AT Proto PDS for new micro.blog users. It’ll launch soon. Important note: it is not for people who already use Bluesky, at least not yet. The goal is to give new users an account on the atmosphere. Existing users will be happier sticking with the Bluesky PDS.
Am I missing something or is the Bluesky new-PDS daily relay limit for an _entire PDS_ lower than the limits they give to a _one single repo_ on their hosted PDSses? docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/rate-lim…
You can sign up for @inspo.land with your bluesky account! under the hood it creates a new private PDS using bsky for auth still a bit finicky sometimes, so lmk if you run into any issues!
Every time you view or like a post or take most actions on Bluesky or Blacksky your requests go through your Personal Data Server (PDS). It’s also the home of all your data. To date, we’ve used other people’s software to run Blacksky’s fleet of PDS. In the next week we’ll be migrating to our own.
The frustrating thing about this is that when you "Login with Bluesky", you're not even actually logging in with Bluesky The App. You may be using a Bluesky PBC-hosted PDS, but it has nothing to do with @bsky.app, other than it's the PDS you're assigned when you create an account on their client.
Bluesky isn’t just one app. It’s part of a much larger ecosystem, and your account is the key. Here are 7 useful apps you can log into with your @bsky.app account that you should know about.
7 Apps You Can Unlock With Your Bluesky Account
storm.leaflet.pubOpen PDSes
A collection of Bluesky PDSes that are "open" and are excepting new users
Selfhosted.social
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