The mainline bluesky "mushroom" PDS have been struggling with an influx of spam and bot accounts so they've gotten a bit picky on email addresses (which I parti

The mainline bluesky "mushroom" PDS have been struggling with an influx of spam and bot accounts so they've gotten a bit picky on email addresses (which I partially get but also find quite frustrating). Luckily there are alternative PDS that you can use without issue. Tangled[1] (the atproto github host) is one. They are a smaller PDS host so the usual caveats apply (if you act up they are more likely to notice you, downtime may occur, etc) but otherwise you can use them like you would any other PDS to interact with bluesky and the greater atproto network. 1. https://tangled.sh/signup https://tangled.sh/signup