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>>g0xA52+(OP)
I love the approach but I’d go with Mastodon which is an actual open protocol with multiple servers and clients and clearly not for profit

>>oelleg+Ne
To be clear, so is blue sky – you can run a Bluesky server yourself just like mastodon

>>ezfe+vf
Do you know anyone who does? There's many big and open Mastodon instances but I've yet to see a Bluesky one.

>>dewey+ei
You normally don't notice tbh. Switching PDS is entirely invisible to the frontend. There's a lot of self hosted PDS users (since it's basically a small go router + sqlite) but there's also bigger community PDS projects being spun up including blacksky and northsky.

As for frontends, there's a bunch of them and a lot of them focus on changing the UX. But for self hosted "bluesky", there is https://deer.social which is a forked client that still relies on the bluesky appview/backend and there is https://zeppelin.social which is downstream of deer social but also runs their own appview independent of "big bluesky".

>>OneDeu+9H
Thanks for the explanation, I was almost certain I'm missing something.