Around 0.5% of weekly active users are on independent PDSes right now, 1.5% if you count @ap.brid.gy - honestly more than I expected 🙂 (blue.mackuba.eu/stats/)
ben
What proportion of total users is that?
Mar 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
PDSwatch (@pdswatch.popbob.wtf)
Tracking the @atproto.com PDS network. PDSes operated by Bluesky Social are not included in the charts. Data sourced from https://github.com/mary-ext/atproto-scraping Maintained by @hexmani.ac
On the weekly posting users per origin chart on my stats page, there's now a checkbox "Show as % of total". And we've quietly passed a pretty important milestone last month: 1% of all users on the network (making app.bsky posts) were on independent PDSes! (13k/1.3M) blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekly_origin_chart
New chart on my stats page! 📊 The set of PDSes is manually selected to show those which are open and have enough users to show up at all, I will be updating it over time. I don't have historical post data to count per PDS further than a few weeks back. blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekly_pds_chart
Even as @wsocial.eu onboards more and more users, they can’t seem to get them to talk to each other 🤐 This atrocious engagement rate (~9%) for users on the W PDS has been steady as a rock since day 1 (here you can see it in the daily totals and percentages). #WhosThereSocial
Elena Rossini ⁂
How is this possible? #WSocial hosts 26k accounts but only 5.4k have provided ID verification (and thus can post). Of those, only 2450 people (as of this AM) have EVER published a SINGLE post or reply. By comparison, on Eurosky (26k accounts) EVERYONE can post. No ID required #WSocialPics
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…
W Social has crossed 1k weekly active users in my stats, and getting close to ½ of what Blacksky has… 🫣 blue.mackuba.eu/stats/#weekly_pds_chart
Top accounts that have moved to (or signed up on) @wsocial.eu PDS:
pdsls.dev/pds.wsocial.network 1,308 accounts / 24 inactive pdsls.dev/dev-pds.wsocial.eu pdsls.dev/nws.wsocial.eu pdsls.dev/pds-prod.wsocial.eu pdsls.dev/stage-pds.wsocial.eu Appear to be duplicates of the above, don’t need to count toward number of users
pdsls.dev/pds.wsocial.network 1,308 accounts / 24 inactive pdsls.dev/dev-pds.wsocial.eu pdsls.dev/nws.wsocial.eu pdsls.dev/pds-prod.wsocial.eu pdsls.dev/stage-pds.wsocial.eu Appear to be duplicates of the above, don’t need to count toward number of users
PDS Operator it's a self hosted dashboard for your PDS. watches labelers and dms you when an account gets flagged. accounts, takedowns, pwd resets, invites, relay status, passkey sign-in, audit log, setup wizard with a qr code. deploy in minutes. tangled.org/brookie.blog/pds-operator
update your PDS Operator 💞 latest version has support for multiple admins, rate limit alerts, and per user stats pages 🥰 maybe some other stuff too i can’t remember.
Brookie
PDS Operator it's a self hosted dashboard for your PDS. watches labelers and dms you when an account gets flagged. accounts, takedowns, pwd resets, invites, relay status, passkey sign-in, audit log, setup wizard with a qr code. deploy in minutes. tangled.org/brookie.blog/pds-operator
PDS Operator it's a self hosted dashboard for your PDS. watches labelers and dms you when an account gets flagged. accounts, takedowns, pwd resets, invites, relay status, passkey sign-in, audit log, setup wizard with a qr code. deploy in minutes. tangled.org/brookie.blog/pds-operator
Open PDSes
A collection of Bluesky PDSes that are "open" and are excepting new users
Selfhosted.social
AT Protocol PDS
