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>>g0xA52+(OP)
You are not hosting it so presumably BlueSky do. You say there is no platform lock in.

If BlueSky banned you tomorrow what is the plan? If BlueSky went bankrupt tomorrow?

I figure there are other AT compliant products that you can switch to but a lot of data would go missing?

>>ThinkB+Xe
So. You can back up your personal data to what is effectively a fancy tar ball (technically it's a collection of CAR files akin to what IPFS uses) and you can restore that to any PDS (personal data server) when you point your account there (either via your did:plc doc or via DNS records via did:web). So even if your current PDS implodes or bans you, you can just go somewhere else.

And of course there are several implementations and hosts for relays (the gossip nodes), PDS implementations, clients, and appviews (the server backend for bluesky the web app).

So strictly speaking if bluesky imploded tomorrow you could just use a self hosted version of the same app or use someone else's (such as https://zeppelin.social).

The PLC directory is still technically in bluesky's hands but is being transferred an independent foundation atm and could be trivially forked if needed. And of course if you use did:web that doesn't apply to you and you just depend on DNS.