Age verification is done in the client (app/website) the appview (CTO calls it an appserver now) is the backend that services api requests from the default, and

Age verification is done in the client (app/website) the appview (CTO calls it an appserver now) is the backend that services api requests from the default, and most other, clients. DMs themselves are not stored in ATproto, and are kind of a hack. You can migrate your PDS (data server) away from bluesky's servers to another host, and as of a few days ago you can migrate back. (only if you initially signed up to bluesky, not if you started off self-hosting) The following gist is good to glean how the age-verification system works: https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318 https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528...