I think there could be a genuine use case for PDS proxying and modifying requests lurking with app preferences.
The disconnect between the social filesystem and web pages. - Chris's Corner
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A proposal for opening AT URIs
Nov 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
PDS: review existing oauth scopes via connected apps list · Issue #4838 · bluesky-social/atproto
Scenario I want to stay on top of which apps are messing with what in my PDS. To do so, it's not enough to just make a granular Goldilocks decision once per app. (The more apps I use, the fewer...
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A zero-dependency AT Protocol Personal Data Server written in JavaScript
Make the PDS Your Own: Customization and Metrics - AT Protocol
Branding, observability, and a session-list fix in the newest reference PDS
It's true — fetching authenticated data directly from a PDS is a pain in the butt. And it's totally worth it.
Making Websites is More Complicated These Days - And That's a Good Thing
alexanderson.leaflet.pubConsider this still a beta. It definitely won't mess up your PDS (it only requests access over Atcade records), but it honestly could use more QA. But you can challenge anyone to a game with just their Bluesky handle! atcade.com
atcade
atcade.comJust published a repo that's doing nightly builds for several spaces-enabled PDSes. It's mostly for @happyview.dev testing, but I figured some others may get some use out of it as well. Lemme know if there are any other PDS implementation I should add! #atproto
GitHub - happyproto/pds-test
github.comIs there a good write up anywhere on the sort of app design of Bluesky, with the frontend client and the PDS proxying requests. I'm curious about whether other approaches were considered, why this approach was chosen, how a relatively snappy experience was accomplished, anything related to that!
when proxying requests to feedgens the client will add an x-bsky-topics header to the request with the users selected topics of interest and it expects the PDS to forward that header on to the feedgen this also plays into a larger issue of what exactly service proxying entails being very ambiguous
App stores could be replaced by having apps published to a PDS, with safety provided using content moderation tooling, search indexed from the firehose, etc. thoufh. We strike aggregators everywhere that they stand.
Gordon
Software industry is probably going to look a lot like the music industry or games industry. Lots of talent, lots of supply, bottleneck shifts to distribution. Aggregators win again?
