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       title: "Embracing ATProto, pt.1: PDS Setup"

     

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       date: 2025-09-01

     

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       title: "Embracing ATProto, part 1: PDS Setup"

     

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       description: In this series of posts, I'll explore my journey into setting up my workflows and services for atproto. The first step is setting up my PDS. Let's start with a bit of explanation for all this lingo.

     

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       date: 2025-09-02

     

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         - name: finxol

     

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         - atproto

     

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         - self-hosting

     

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       This is the post about atproto

     

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       The [Atmosphere Protocol](https://atproto.com/), or atproto for short, is the protocol behind the Bluesky social network.

     

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       It's "an open, decentralized network for building social applications."

     

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       _If you are familiar with ATProto already, [skip ahead](#setting-up-a-pds)._

     

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       Atproto is decentralised in a different way to other solutions like [ActivityPub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub), which services like Mastodon implement.

     

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       When you host a Mastodon instance, you immediately control and manage the different parts: you control your data, your web interface and API.

     

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       You could use a Mastodon instance as a standalone Twitter replacement.

     

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       However, the ActivityPub principle is to make different instances communicate with each other, so everyone communicates with everyone directly

     

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       ## Setting up a PDS

     

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