It's really cool that people are now using Bluesky not only from servers they host themselves, but servers they *wrote* themselves (or someone else here did), adding features the standard one doesn't have ❤️ Like, I now have 2FA again on my PDS because @baileytownsend.dev just went and built it
Matt Kane
Cirrus PDS now support passkey auth. It was a bit of a puzzle adding it to a tool where where the admin is all CLI, but I'm really pleased with the flow I came up with. Give it a go! github.com/ascorbic/cirrus If you don't know what Cirrus is, it's a really easy way to host your own Bluesky data
Jan 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Tweets 2 Bsky | BlueAT Network - A Bluesky PDS
BlueAT Network offers a service no other PDS ever has, X Account mirroring.
SMM Tools that connect & post to non-Bluesky PDSs (Blacksky, Eurosky, selfhosted.social PDS etc.) - Hilary's Leaflet
+ some info at the end to help anyone developing one of these tools add non-Bluesky PDS support.
Self-hosting - AT Protocol
Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider ATProto network.
Bluesky PDS
Take control of your online identity with a one-click Bluesky PDS. Built on the open AT Protocol, Bluesky gives users full ownership of their social data and digital presence. Clovyr makes self-hosting simple, secure, and accessible for everyone, with no command line required.
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.
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.
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.
The question came up today "When will Bluesky support 2FA for things like passkeys", etc besides email. I've talked about it a bit spread out, but thought I'd do a 🧵 on the lay of the land with auth and 2FA in the atmosphere
Felix Schneider
Regarding one question from today's atproto x npmx x svelte meetup: npmx.social already supports 2FA with email thanks to @pds.dad 🥳💐
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
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.
and this is why Bluesky 💙
Goddess Delilah Dee
It will never NOT piss me off that vanillas and SWERFS can say whatever the hell they like about sex work and spread misinformation, but actual people who DO the work are shadowbanned to shit and have the looming threat of our accounts being taken away if we correct them.
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!
🙋♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it
airspace
getair.space🙋♂️ ever wanted to build something without needing to configure a db, auth, file storage or a cms? it turns out you already have all four if you have a bluesky account 👉 airspace is a typed client for it
airspace
getair.space“truly own your social identity on bluesky and at protocol” that’s… not how this works — this is just another PDS hosting service, which is great and needed, but it’s not giving people anymore ownership over their identity than having it hosted anywhere else let’s not confuse/mislead people plz
periwinkle.social
