Probably noticed our landing page hasn't really been working lately. Took some time to get it back in order! I also added a few feature requests. selfhosted.social - post feed is back - New "Join" page so you can create your account directly on our PDS - An account shortcut

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

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!)

Today, we're launching the ability to Bounce from Mastodon to any Atmosphere PDS you have access to, whether it be @blackskyweb.xyz, @eurosky.social, @transrights.northsky.social, @selfhosted.social, or even your self-hosted option! You can also bring an invite code when necessary 🎟️ 1/

Bounce Update: PDS Provider Migrations

Today, we're launching a long-awaited feature for Bounce: migrating your Atmosphere account that lives in Bridgy Fed out of the bridge and into a PDS provider of your choice, Bouncing you from the Fed...

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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.

selfhosted.social@selfhosted.social · 4mo ago

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com · 6mo ago

@selfhosted.social is slowly becoming the PDS backbone for multiple independent Atmosphere apps 👀

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

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

selfhosted.social@selfhosted.social · 6mo ago

ATProto devs did you know you can use selfhosted.social for users to create brand new accounts on the atmosphere in your applications? Both deckbelcher.com and blento.app uses our PDS. A user's journey into the atmosphere does not always have to be started from Bluesky. It can start from your app.

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

ATProto devs did you know you can use selfhosted.social for users to create brand new accounts on the atmosphere in your applications? Both deckbelcher.com and blento.app uses our PDS. A user's journey into the atmosphere does not always have to be started from Bluesky. It can start from your app.

You can now signup directly on blento.app without having to already have an atproto/bluesky account! Powered by @selfhosted.social's PDS (thankfully didnt have to set up my own pds 🫶), pretty happy with the sign-up flow too 😊 from no account to created blento page in less than 1 minute!

I second this. If you are running a tap instance if you could please update to this. If you have heard me talking about @selfhosted.social's high CPU usage, it was this. There was a bug where when a tap instance subscribed to a repo and the repo changed in any way, tap would download the whole repo

daniel holmgren 🫠@dholms.at · 6mo ago

just published a fix for a bug in Tap that was causing over-fetching of repos when filtering based on collection if you're using Tap, strongly encourage upgrading (to v0.1.4)! you can upgrade to the latest by pulling ghcr.io/bluesky-social/indigo/tap:latest

This is expected to happen tomorrow, and we do not expect any downtime when Bluesky PBC does the changeover. Can keep an eye on our notice message at the top of selfhosted.social if anything changes and will send out modmail via email if there is an extended outage.

AT Protocol Developers@atproto.com · 6mo ago

The popular firehose service at 'bsky.network' is finally going to be upgraded this coming Tuesday. The disruption to PDS operators, firehose consumers, and jetstream users should be minimal, but read the full post for all the details.

Dreams do come true. @selfhosted.social is now running on two PDS containers to spread the work across multiple node processes. Bad news. It did not help with CPU usage being pegged at 70%. It is now 100%. I guess if you're going pay for something, use it all.

Bailey Townsend 🦀@pds.dad · last yr.

Hey everyone. We're back! I am terribly sorry about the outage today. I wrote a postmortem to explain better what happened. tldr: We had a large influx of create records, which led to us learn the rate limit was not on and to be rate limited by the relay for a few hours

Selfhosted Postmortem, Jan 13th, 2026 - Bailey's Weekly Retrospective

The details on the outage

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Looks like we have a pretty large backlog of records for the relay to process, but hoping things should be back to normal as those process. Sorry again everyone about this!

selfhosted.social@selfhosted.social · 7mo ago

selfhosted.social appears to be having some issues where posts are delayed before showing after they are created. This affects new posts, replies, and likes. Looking into it. Details: I think we are experiencing high volume of create records and the relay may be rate limiting us a bit

selfhosted.social appears to be having some issues where posts are delayed before showing after they are created. This affects new posts, replies, and likes. Looking into it. Details: I think we are experiencing high volume of create records and the relay may be rate limiting us a bit

We were indeed vulnerable to this type of attack, and it has now been patched. This would have only affected you on our landing page at selfhosted.social, nowhere else like inside of the bsky.app. Also, we have no reports that anyone attempted this before the vulnerability was found and patched

selfhosted.social@selfhosted.social · 7mo ago

I was made aware of this possible attack vector last night and was kindly informed that we could be vulnerable to it on our landing page. As soon as I was made aware I turned off our landing page till it could be tested. All PDS operations are still operational, but the landing page is down for now.

I was made aware of this possible attack vector last night and was kindly informed that we could be vulnerable to it on our landing page. As soon as I was made aware I turned off our landing page till it could be tested. All PDS operations are still operational, but the landing page is down for now.

Skywatch Blue@skywatch.blue · 7mo ago

Be aware that there are accounts attempting to steal session keys. This particular method won’t work using the Bluesky app for a couple of reasons, but third party apps may be vulnerable to similar attempts. We will attempt to automatically label these as Platform Manipulation.

Did you know on our dashboard on selfhosted.social that it shows your current Statusphere status and song you are listening to with teal.fm?

A bit late but we are over 50 active accounts now 🥳

selfhosted.social members now have another backup for their blobs and repos with a new PDS MOOver node instance. If ever needed, and as long as you have a rotation key, you can use one of these two links UpCloud, Chicago, US pdsmoover.com Railway, Amsterdam, Netherlands eu.pdsmoover.com

PDS MOOver - Restore

Recovery and restore your ATProto account

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If you're migrating your account to selfhosted.social, you will need to use this PDS MOOver URL since we use a captcha on account creation. pdsmoover.com/moover/selfh...

We are officially open to the public! selfhosted.social is an independent ATProto PDS managed by @baileytownsend.dev No invite codes required. Everyone is welcome. We just ask that you read over and agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. selfhosted.social/legal

selfhosted.social is getting ready to go "public". This account will become the selfhosted.social account once the dns record resolves. The new landing page is live along with an info section, and our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service if members would like to look them over.