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22-author: Jack Platten
33-createdAt: 2025-11-24T06:18:20.000Z
44-modifiedAt: null
55-title: Self hosting your PDS with Podman
66-featured: true
77-draft: false
88-tags:
99- - atproto
1010- - server
1111-description: A writeup of gotchas and other fun stuff along the way of deploying a PDS
1212-atUri: 'at://did:plc:cwdkf4xxjpznceembuuspt3d/site.standard.document/3mdrs3mtops2m'
1313----
1414-1515-Bluesky is great (as evidenced by my multiple posts on it), but I wanted to own
1616-my data more than it living on the Bluesky servers. Now I could have just used
1717-the standard deployment as shown [in the PDS repo](https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds),
1818-but I wanted to do something a little more fitting my deployment practices.