Phase one is to create a PDS that securely hosts data in Canada, away from political persecution of 2SLGBTQIA+.
Phase two and beyond will include our own AppView and improved moderation tools.
These networks will exist side by side with bluesky and allow interaction per usual. Source
Then where are the accounts that are not on sky.social?
The
.bsky.socialyou often see at the end of Bluesky usernames is not like the@mastodon.socialyou often see at the end of Mastodon usernames.On Bluesky, usernames have to be a domain. If you own your own domain, you can set your username to that domain, but if you don’t, you’ll usually be assigned one that ends in
.bsky.social. In the following example, the New York Times sets their username to @nytimes.com, because they own nytimes.com.Their data is still hosted on one of Bluesky’s PDSs, however.
A PDS is just a server that personal data, a Personal Data Server. Currently, the process of moving ones data off of Bluesky’s PDS and onto another is cumbersome, and the only users who have done so are technically inclined and self-hosting their own PDS. There are only about a thousand of them (according to the graph below), but hopefully there will be more once the process is streamlined.
Since my business owns a domain I could change my bsky.social or my business domain? Would that affect people following me?
If your business owns a domain, you can set your handle to that domain. This blog post explains how to do so.
If you change your handle, users who follow you will still follow you. If you migrate to a different PDS, your followers will still follow you.