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MOMMA WE MADE IT docs.bsky.app/blog/self-ho...

unbelievably stoked to be getting this out - it's been a long time coming & is the culmination of over two years of work still much to do, but this is a huge step towards opening up the network & turning it into a resilient piece of public infrastructure

But bluesky imposes rate limits on outside PDSes. Does that mean they still control the index? Will there be alternate indexes with fewer (or more) restrictions?

Does the network not still depend on plc.directory ?

someone can easily fork that the entire dataset is freely available & is actively mirrored by several devs may require some coordination but totally doable

Hmmm if Bluesky disappears all accounts tied to plc.directory disappear with it so that’s still a big issue.

all the referred to documentation here was just about PDSes. Are you saying everything else is self-hostable as of today too?

Omg you’re going to assassinate @pfrazee.com

haha wait what

Do you have a will? If not just sign this one I have here. You don’t need to read it.

There still need to be a way to easily keep an up to date local copy of the data to transfer it to a new PDS in case the company disappear.

totally possible to do right now! will be working soon to get it into the app as well