See who.loves.brussels/atproto-apps

Good question: Some pds are totally open @selfhosted.social , some are upon invitation, some are closed, some have a waiting list @eurosky.social You'd have to explore!

Note: right now, I assume your data is on a PDS provided by bluesky when you registered, so you'd have to move first, using a tool like PDSmoover, before disconnecting from bluesky.

It means that if one day you don't like bluesky anymore, you can just connect to another service (say @transrights.northsky.social , @graysky.app , @rude1.blacksky.team ...) and that's about it: your data hasn't moved, their environment have.

PDS = Personal Data Server

Basically, everything you do using bluesky and other atproto-enabled apps (like posting, commenting, likes, uploaded files) lands on your PDS, and is accessed (via the at protocol) by other apps you give it authorization to.

Here is a compiled list of PDSs around the world. Choose one that is near you, or in a country which supports your values.

Think of it as choosing web hosting but not for your website, for the data you create interacting on atproto.

ah - let me know if you want me to take it down

@margin.at and @semble.so are such a great applications of the potential of atproto. Society really needs tools for collective intelligence...

Thanks for the suggestion! It's a Discord add-on, isn't it? This is more for standalone products. I might reconsider and open up later on but not right now.

Did you submit it to the @blueskydirectory.com which covers a broader range ?

I really am not trying to be inconsiderate: in my world, giving feedback is caring. I did not perceive the service's function to be that because that I've never been in that problem space and the frontpage does not make it clear - I assumed it was a linktree on steroids. Thx for your explanation.

Seems to me like it might not remain a little side project then. The privacy issue will only grow bigger with every new service added: such data is gold, signal vs noise and all that. I'm not exactly sure what problem you are solving for the user vs for data harvesters?

Ah, it did not seem like a little side project to me, given its well polished UX.
So you will not be adding more and more services to claim identity over?

Ah, that's a cool idea. Soon!

This is really cool, but on the flip side, also a free gift for data enriching companies such as lemlist, hubspot, etc. A tool to make data harvesting much easier. Have you thought of that?

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