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How can you "own your data" if its on someone else's server? Is it encrypted? Does your audience need to have a key to read it?

Well, I'm not the best person to explain how that works (I'm just using it to build fun website :P), but the way i understand it: - bluesky is one of (potentially) many apps that run on top of a protocol "at proto" - in that protocol everyone has their own little server (personal data server = PDS)

- you *can* totally selfhost your PDS (see github.com/bluesky-soci...), but you can also let someone else do it for you (most everyone on bluesky lets bluesky host their PDS), but even if someone else does it for you, you can always move your PDS somewhere else (using some cryptographic magic, ...

6/1/26, 1:52 pm1 repost2 likes

... that I don't understand either ^^), so you always have control even if you dont selfhost - regarding needing a key for reading: currently basically everything you do on at proto is public by default (excluding DMs and bookmarks afaik but those are actually saved outside of at proto), ...