I see lots of discussion about moving from PDS to PDS, which is great. But in the long term, I have misgivings about using an identity whose rotation keys are controlled by someone else, and even if we remove the bsky keys after migrating, they are still at the root of any DID they created.
Mar 23, 2026 at 3:27 AM
What the hell is a rotation key? - HItchhikers Guide to the atmosphere
Why it's important that YOU should have a rotation key and backups for your Bluesky/AT Protocol account that is hosted on a third party PDS
What the hell is a rotation key? - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Atmosphere
Why it's important that YOU should have a rotation key and backups for your Bluesky/AT Protocol account that is hosted on a third party PDS
Registering Identity Recovery Keys via PDS, using goat | bryan newbold
One of the big design goals for atproto is for users to "own their network identity". If something goes wrong with a hosting provider, it should be possible recover accounts by independently updating their identity to point at a new home. Every account in the network has both a handle and a DID. Th...
rekmarks/bluesky-account-migrator
A simple CLI for migrating Bluesky accounts from one PDS to another.
rekmarks/bluesky-account-migrator
A simple CLI for migrating Bluesky accounts from one PDS to another.
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.
Introducing bsky.storage: Own Your Social Identity
Take back control of your online identity. Our new tool, bsky.storage, backs up your Bluesky account hourly — free, secure &…
Actually, having one Identity for yourself is a Breaching Experiment
This should really be a comment to Henry’s post, but I have the keys to this car, so I’m going to drive it, too. We have Zuckerberg’s remark:
What It Means for Universities to Run Their Own PDS: The Potential of DID as Academic Infrastructure - Nightflight
Fragmented Identity Researchers' identities are fragmented. Grant IDs, ORCID, institutional email addresses, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, and various socia…
Happy to see @wsocial.eu making this move. I may disagree with a lot of what they do, but this is a big step in the right direction, especially as their tool supports outward migrations too. I'm also pleased to see the "give me a recovery key" option. Every PDS should have this on sign-up too.
W Social
The migration tool is ready. You can now move your account to W from any AT Protocol provider, and out of W to any other. Fully automated, both directions. Your handle, your followers, your posts. They all come with you. Moving in still needs an invite code. Moving out never will.
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!
here is how i've been explaining PDS migration to the 115 users i've migrated: imagine your bluesky account as being an apartment. you're upset the rent is changing, so you move to a cheaper apartment on the other side of town. after you move, you have to update your address with the post office.
daniel holmgren 🫠
& you lose if you say the word "protocol", "decentralized", "repo", or "pds" to illustrate: the cloud is "the thing where i keep my photos when i drop my phone in a lake". if you even mention a "server" while explaining the cloud then you lost the thread
here is how i've been explaining PDS migration to the 115 users i've migrated: imagine your bluesky account as being an apartment. you're upset the rent is changing, so you move to a cheaper apartment on the other side of town. after you move, you have to update your address with the post office.
daniel holmgren 🫠
& you lose if you say the word "protocol", "decentralized", "repo", or "pds" to illustrate: the cloud is "the thing where i keep my photos when i drop my phone in a lake". if you even mention a "server" while explaining the cloud then you lost the thread
