That’s a good question, as of now, its not possible without self hosting something.
deer.social is an alt-app, but it uses bsky’s relay iirc.
Comment on Bluesky is more open than you think.
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Is there any way to connect the bsky android app to the atproto.africa relay or a third party appview that uses the atproto.africa relay? I wouldn’t mind using bsky more if there was a clone of the android app that doesn’t use the bsky relay/appview. Looking at whtwnd it appears to be just web and not native apps?
I would like to host my own PDS and access bsky through a native app using third party relay+appview, but I haven’t seen a way to do this yet.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I might be wrong, but feeds get their data from relays, correct? So if you are using any of the Blacksky feeds, presumably you would indirectly be using the atproto.africa relay?
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
It should, yes.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Actually, take a look at AppViewLite, it lets you skip relays and crawl PDSes directly. Its fairly lightweight as well, so you could host it alongside a PDS.