bluesky-social/pds
Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation
Recommended between 2025-09-26 and 2026-06-21. Last pushed 2026-10-31.
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“Most HN users would find it cheap and easy to host a private PDS for you and your friends.”
— jacobgold, 2026-06-21 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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One of the core features of AT is the ability to move your repo hosting provider (PDS) at any time. This is the data portability that ActivityPub never had. Most HN users would find it cheap and easy to host a private PDS for you and your friends. https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds
“you could start on this by running a PDS via the reference implementation here”
— steveklabnik, 2025-09-26 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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…lem with doing this is: > If people wanna follow on bluesky they can You lose this. Because you're now not running on the main atproto system, but instead a fully parallel one of your own. Anyway, you could start on this by running a PDS via the reference implementation here: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds and then building your own appview (application). You could also take a look at Blacksky's implementation https://github.com/blacksky-algorithms/rsky and if you end up using it, consider throwing them a few dollars. Alternative implementations are super important!
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