my mindset for self-hosting things is something that I could afford to lose if it vanished tomorrow morning, and public facing software and federated services are not that. I can't just restore my *identity* on my own leisure, and that's the entire point of self-hosting a PDS - ThreadSky

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notnite.com • 40 days ago

my mindset for self-hosting things is something that I could afford to lose if it vanished tomorrow morning, and public facing software and federated services are not that. I can't just restore my *identity* on my own leisure, and that's the entire point of self-hosting a PDS

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offbeatwit.ch•40 days ago

funnily enough i think one of the stated goals of atproto is resilience against a PDS going offline:

> We assume that a Personal Data Server may fail at any time [...] The goal of the AT Protocol is to ensure that a user can migrate their account to a new PDS without the server's involvement.

offbeatwit.ch•40 days ago

but i have no idea if thats currently true. i'm on @j0.lol's PDS because I'm a did:web, and I think having manual control over my DID document means I could shuffle my account anywhere with no PDS involvement whatsoever, though i would presumably lose data if I just up and did that

offbeatwit.ch•40 days ago

oh, that quote is from https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto#account-portability btw

notnite.com•40 days ago

yeah I'm aware, it is actually quite good at that tmk, just obviously that if a PDS is down I can't auth through it or interact with the network in any way. I may still display on the network but I would be functionally frozen

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