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Landing page for selfhosted.social, an ATProto PDS

selfhosted.social (and other PDSs), is kind of like the “Login with google” for other websites on the atmosphere so they can build their websites easily and we host the accounts. We do have a bit of an info page, but I’d gladly answer any other questions! Atproto is a lot lol selfhosted.social/info

selfhosted.social

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Use your Atmosphere account to follow writers and save reads.

We provide a way for other websites to create an account with us programmatically. Like @standard-reader.app, if you click their “Create account” button you can see from the url it’s on our PDS. So it’s usually up to the application to implement that to make the user experience better

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That link was mostly just a quick easy way for you to share with your colleagues if they didn’t want to create a Bluesky account, but did want an account to try out things like leaflet. Mostly the way folks make an account on our PDS is either by migrating their already existing account, or

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 03/07/2026

Sweet thank you! I found this URL and should help a bit @debbieohi.com for now. This will take them to selfhosted.social account page to create an account, then redirect to leaflet after they create an account. leaflet.pub/api/oauth/lo...

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@awarm.space do y’all have a endpoint that takes a handle for the redirect so I can share a url with selfhosted prefilled out to make it easier for them to share?

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 03/07/2026

For instance on leaflet if you tell your colleagues to enter in selfhosted.social, with the https:// in the handle input it directs them to our PDS to make an account, then back to leaflet signed in. They can also use that account on other atmospheric applications going forward!

Shows the leaflet handle login with https://selfhosted.social

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 03/07/2026

Been meaning to change the landing page 😅. It shows people on the PDS, but we’ve grown a bit so takes a while to load now. Sadly we do not have a great easy way for users to sign up, but we are setup so other atmospheric apps can use us as an account provider easily.

selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 24/06/2026

Looks like the upstream Bluesky AppView is having a bit of issues tonight. Watching to see if there's anything that can be done on the PDS side. Reminder: you can still use Bluesky using one of these clients that do not depend on Bluesky's AppView reddwarf.app blacksky.community

reddwarf.app

Red Dwarf

an appview-less Bluesky client using Constellation and PDS Queries

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 24/06/2026

Thank you for the heads up! Looking into it now. Appears to be upstream with Bluesky's AppView. Hoping it will sort it self out soon 🤞

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Squire @squire.quest · 14/05/2026

You can now recommend squire.guide to people who aren't yet using an atprotocol app. I know I got too cutesy and this should say "create a new account"… but I'm having fun. (thanks @selfhosted.social!)

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 14/05/2026

Happy to be able to provide that for you! Excited to see the new accounts roll in!

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 20/04/2026

selfhosted.social users love a new atproto app

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 04/04/2026

It's a nice freebie for some disk space! I did hit one little hiccup with it. I think I may of restarted the server without a graceful PDS shutdown or something. But the relay cursor was off from what I had so the relay was not forwarding events when it came back on. Just followed this to fix it

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GitHub - bluesky-social/pds: Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation

Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation - bluesky-social/pds

selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 04/04/2026

And we should be back! Sorry about that. I think it took close to , or a bit over, the whole 30 minutes. This was a bit of an unusual maintenance that is thankfully a one time thing.

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*and to note you need to run `VACUUM;` after the first trim to reclaim the storage space

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growing. Ours is now at 8.4gigs. The maintenance is to shrink it by trimming anything out that is over 48 hours. In my tests I found it brought the size down to 54mb. With this being the first one I need to bring down the server to do it. After that it's a cron job every 48 hours to keep it clean.

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The deets: Every record/event written to a PDS is sent on the "firehose". That's how it goes from the PDS -> relay -> appview. The order of those events and some info is stored in a sqlite db named sequencer. The PDS does not trim that automatically, so since the PDS has been running it has been..

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 21/03/2026

Can expect some down time tonight on 04-04-2026 around 02:00 UTC, or 10pm eastern on the 3rd. We are hoping this should take only 30mins or less. Can also expect there will be some more down time next week, but details will follow.

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Thank you! and nice! They can be had for a lot cheaper as well. selfhosed keeps a bit more ram so it can hopefully support larger repo imports (up to 450mb-ish), so that cost a bit more. My previous PDS was like a 1 vcpu 2gb ram for $7 and was perfectly fine for a few accounts

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 21/03/2026

- I've notice we seem to get a lot of getRepo's, so cause the CPU to run a bit higher, but does not affect normal browsing - the $60 goes across: droplet, backups, and S3. All in all I'm hopeful this holds till 10k, only one way to find out I guess!

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 21/03/2026

*I probably should have said "The hope is 10k+ users" >.>, this is mostly my estimate by guesswork, but I don't want to be misleading. Current facts: - DO droplet 2 vcpu, 8 GB ram, 100 gig drive - 421 active accounts - 32gigs of blobs in S3 ($5 for the first 250) - Last 7 days stats from dashboard

Shows CPU, load, and memory usage from digital ocean

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 20/03/2026

The server comes out to about $60 a month, and the plan is that should be enough for 10k+ users. In time, whew. Really depends. Lower end 5 hours a month, higher end is 20+

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 06/02/2026

Our little home has grown to over 200+ active accounts!

Shows the heading ATProto PDS and "home to 209 accounts"

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Streamplace @stream.place · 05/02/2026

Streamplace v0.9.9 is live! Aside from a variety of bugfixes, we've completely revamped our Sign Up button and it now suggests, in randomized order: @selfhosted.social, @blackskyweb.xyz, @tophhie.social, and @bsky.app! What are other open-access PDS providers we should include?

New to the Atmosphere? You'll need to select a PDS (Personal Data Server) to access apps on the Atmosphere, such as Bluesky, Tangled, and Spark. selfhosted.social A popular community-run PDS BlueskyThe main Bluesky PDS instance Tophhie CloudA PDS service by Tophhie Blacksky PDSA PDS service by Blacksky Algorithms Another PDS Enter your own PDS host URL Learn more about self-hosting Each host has their own policies and reliability standards. Your ATProto data lives on the host you choose and you can migrate later. Note: Streamplace has its own moderation rules - you can be banned from Streamplace regardless of which host you choose. Read selfhosted.social's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before continuing. Cancel Continue

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 30/01/2026

Idk if I have enough eyes for another chat room 😅

selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 30/01/2026

We're happy to give devs somewhere brand new identities on the atmosphere can be created if the user has never been on the atmosphere before! Not all roads lead to Bluesky in the atmosphere. Sometimes it's to us, or other communities like @blackskyweb.xyz and @transrights.northsky.social.

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 28/01/2026

selfhosted.social, the neighborhood’s PDS. Buy one get one free atproto app everyday.

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Rocksky @rocksky.app · 28/01/2026

You can now sign up to @rocksky.app with @selfhosted.social

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plyr.fm @plyr.fm · 28/01/2026

no account? no problem! thanks to @selfhosted.social 🩵

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selfhosted.social @selfhosted.social · 28/01/2026

whoops! Thank you that notice is done so I hid it. Should be able to refresh and read the site much better.

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to the atmosphere who may have never heard of Bluesky, but have of your app and want to sign in to use your app.

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Glossary of terms - AT Protocol

Yes! That's the promise of the PDS, and we're a community hosted one. Also worth noting: if the user already has an account with Bluesky, they already have a PDS and login, so they do not have to create a brand new identity. They can just use that one. This is for brand new users to your app and..

atproto.com

A collection of terminology used in the AT Protocol and their definitions.

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We love The Moth App ™️ and would welcome the moths!

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Build Community Online with Decentralized Tools | Blacksky

You may also let them know they may already have an account on the atmosphere, especially if they found out about it via a Bluesky post. There are also other great PDSs that do not require an invite code, like Blacksky at blacksky.app. Each PDS has their own T&S so best to review those first.

blackskyweb.xyz

Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.

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