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Sure, somebody else holds your identity, but it's pretty easy to control it yourself. By its nature if you're using somebody to host your stuff, you're trusting
by ascorbic 3mo ago
Sure, somebody else holds your identity, but it's pretty easy to control it yourself. By its nature if you're using somebody to host your stuff, you're trusting them with it. I made Cirrus so you can self-host your PDS for free, but you still need to trust Cloudflare to run it.
- kevinak 3mo agoIt’s great that tings like this exist but as long as this is how identities work on ATProto it’s unfortunately going to be a niche thing.
- ascorbic 3mo agoThe easy way is to create an account on Bluesky. That's as simple as creating an account on any other social network. The important bit though is that you can then, if you want, migrate to a different host and take your identity with you, or if you're brave you can self-host. This is by its nature something for power users, but regular users can use Bluesky accounts without ever knowing or caring about PDSs, DIDs or signing keys etc.