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       title: "Embracing ATProto, part 1: Setting up a PDS"

     

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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: 2025-09-03

     

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       updated: 2025-09-17

     

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       authors:

     

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         - name: finxol

     

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       Once the script finished and everything was running, I simply pinged the pds with `curl https://pds.finxol.io/xrpc/_health`,

     

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       tested the websocket connection as stated in the docs, only with [`websocat`](https://github.com/vi/websocat),

     

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       and saw everything working as expected!

     

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       *Edit:*

     

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       Also, make sure the ***time*** is right on your server.

     

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       An incorrect system time will lead to incorrect timestamps in oauth tokens, getting them rejected by some clients.

     

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       My server time was off by a few dozen seconds, enough to prevent me from logging into Tangled...

     

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       ## Account Migration

     

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