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OK, hold on to your butts, I did a lot of code typing style things on my last day of downtime. I migrated my @bmannconsulting.com account to my own PDS. The notes for that are very boring bmannconsulting.com/notes/migrat...

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OK! Got this account migrated to my own PDS. A little fiddly to gather all the info, but @bnewbold.net's post on using goat is straightforward and just worked for me whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net... It should keep posting Github starred repos, and not much else. Next up: importing Twitter archive.

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Ha! Ironically my PDS is on a Hostinger VPS in Germany, and I'm up the coast from you in Vancouver! @z-space.ca might get a PDS running in the studio at some point.

Yes, I saw a ridiculous multi region AWS something something that's like $80/month. But it can also probably host 100s or 1000s of users! I couldn't find it, but here, I found a very cool @davepeck.org write up of running a PDS on Dokku davepeck.org/notes/bluesk... (must…resist…urge to run Dokku)

I did then figure out and document the syntax for using Mailgun to send email from your PDS. So, we really do need a community docs space rather than "search the PDS Admin Discord". Not putting that on my plate, just pointing it out. github.com/bluesky-soci...

github.comSyntax for Mailgun email sending · Issue #194 · bluesky-social/pdsI didn't see any reference to Mailgun, so putting this here to hopefully figure it out myself. The general syntax for SMTP for Mailgun is "username@maildomain", password, @ smtp.mailgun.org or smtp...

Woo hoo, Taildrive installed! Browsing my PDS block blobs from the comfort of the MacOS Finder. Now I need desktop tools for dealing with blobs. Anyone? #atproto