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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
> Do you know anyone who does?

One example of a profile that lives on a different PDS ("AT Protocol Personal Data Server") than the default one: https://bsky.app/profile/mackuba.eu

If you look in the bottom left of https://clearsky.app/mackuba.eu/history, it shows:

> User changed [...] 1/2/2025 to external server PDS: https://lab.martianbase.net

If you go to that URL, you'll see the landing page for the atproto PDS software.

Edit: Ah, and seems Kuba is hosting a directory of profiles using their own PDS as well, lots of examples over there: https://blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pdses

Biggest one right now (excluding the default one) seems to be atproto.brid.gy, which has 40393 accounts.