Self-hosting your PDS

I take a lot of pleasure in running my own services. Self-hosting is a lot of fun and I keep accumulating more and more things on my server, from a feed reader to uptime monitoring (as backup to larm.dev), not to mention all of my toy projects. I’ve been writing a lot about atproto recently and it’s frankly a very fertile area for self-hosting. Not only are there lots of open source components you can run, but the nature of atproto decentralization means that you can run your own services while seamlessly participating in shared systems. For example, you can run your own PDS (Personal Data Server) and create an account on it, and then log into Bluesky and post and participate with everyone else. Your account will work across the ATmosphere. So, let’s talk about what it takes to self-host a PDS. Follow along and by the end of this you're posting on Bluesky from your own self-hosted account. tranquil-pds There are multiple PDS implementations out there. The original and probably most…