The “Personal” in PDS doesn’t mean it is only for self-hosting. Bluesky has a main PDS instance at https://bsky.social https://bsky.social that serves almost a

The “Personal” in PDS doesn’t mean it is only for self-hosting. Bluesky has a main PDS instance at https://bsky.social https://bsky.social that serves almost all of the Bluesky user base. There is a good overview of the architecture here: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture Here’s a snippet from the protocol roadmap they published 3-4 weeks ago [1]: Multiple PDS instances The Bluesky PDS (bsky.social) is currently a monolithic PostgreSQL database with over a million hosted repositories. We will be splitting accounts across multiple instances, using the protocol itself to help with scaling. [1] https://atproto.com/blog/2023-protocol-roadmap https://atproto.com/blog/2023-protocol-roadmap