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yeehaw @baileytownsend.dev
the cowboy hat is my checkmark on this account. ty for checking and helping others!

teal.town
January 14, 2026 at 3:20 AM
the end is near! we got a bump again on the relay and looks like it's catching up much faster now.
January 14, 2026 at 2:34 AM
*I should probably also add your account and everything is okay. The PDS is working as it should. It's just the Bluesky now playing catch up and playing those events on the firehose as it catches up to the new records. Once caught up everything will be as it is before and should not happen again
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Monitoring and seeing what I can do. But I think it's just up to Bluesky's Relay to chew through the backlog of the event's from the PDS.

proof it's me

selfhosted.social/xrpc/com.atp...
selfhosted.social
January 14, 2026 at 1:37 AM
I am really sorry about this, any write operations are behind. But can still read and view bsky normally.

slightly longer tldr: I found out the hard way today that the api rate limits are not on by default on self hosted PDSs, someone non-maliciously created 20k records, waiting on relay to process
January 14, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Yes. don't set create a new account and use bsky.social as the PDS. The account to orginally been created on a bsky PDS
January 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
they were backfilling a twitter account and ended up causing us to by pass the relay limit. not their fault but mine, did not realize the pds rate limits were not on by default :/. Tried a take down to see if it would stop. looks like it wont, just stuck in relay backlog for now
January 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
been watching this on main till it shows someone else it's still churning through that backlog.

bsky.app/profile/esse...
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Hey may check your email I sent out a system notice and posted on @selfhosted.social right before it cut off. Looks like the bsky relay is picking up events again, just has a massive backlog of events to go through. Sorry about the inconvenience

github.com/bluesky-soci...
Selfhosted.social relay check pretty please · Issue #306 · bluesky-social/pds
Hey, It's baileytownsend.dev admin of the PDS https://selfhosted.social. We've had a user who looks to be backfilling their old twitter account to an account on the PDS and seeing some slug-ish res...
github.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
it's not :( events are hitting the relay faster but still catching up and should be good once it is caught up
January 13, 2026 at 8:06 PM