No, you can’t. You can have a custom domain (“PDS” is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky’s servers.
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unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 5 days agobut can I use a random old computer I have in my house to run an instance as long as there are a managable number of users? renting a server isnt self hosting. making one yourself is self hosting.
Kirk@startrek.website 4 days ago
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yes, you can.
You can easily run a PDS, that’s the main public-facing part, you’d need port forwarding and a domain name for this.
Appviews are easier to host imo, github.com/alnkesq/AppViewLite is what I use. You can run this on a PC right now, and log in with your bluesky account.
unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 3 days ago
thats not a whole instance though. thats just a place for an account to be. on activity pub platforms anyone can just make an entire indepent and independently functional instance of the platform.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
???
The PDS and the Appview combined are equivalent to an instance. Both run on shitware.