Bsky.storage: Own Your Social Identity
3 hours ago
- #Social Media
- #Data Ownership
- #Bluesky
- Introduction of bsky.storage, a tool for owning and controlling your social identity on Bluesky and the AT Protocol.
- Comparison to phone number portability rules in 2003, highlighting the need for social media identity portability today.
- bsky.storage offers hourly backups of Bluesky content and a recovery key for account control, even if Bluesky is offline.
- Jay Graber, Founder of Bluesky, emphasizes the vision of users owning their data and online identities.
- Free tier offers 2GB of storage on the Filecoin Network, with no duplicate data storage.
- Process involves creating a Storacha account, connecting Bluesky, and selecting data for backup.
- Hourly snapshots save new media blobs and full repository backups if changes occur.
- Recovery key registration allows for account migration to new Personal Data Servers without losing contacts.
- Open-source development with community contributions; future plans include encrypted backups for DMs and preferences.
- Invitation for other AT Protocol app developers to integrate automated backups.