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Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide
Chris Greenacre, Tophhie Cloud Blog, 2025/07/16

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This article explains how to build and configure a Bluesky personal data server (PDS) in Azure. This is only one step of creating a fully decentralized instance of Bluesky (though of course you can use your PDS with regular Bluesky as well). Why would anyone do this, beyond basic curiosity? It allows you to control your own data, including posts, on your own service, to be shared however you want. Via Unexpected Engineer.

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Homepage - Complete College Photo Library
Complete College Photo Library, 2025/07/16

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Alan Levine writes, "Complete College America (CCA) developed the image collection to address the limited number of open-source and affordable stock images, many of which are already overused, posed, and do not adequately illustrate real students in real situations, both inside and outside the classroom." Photos are CC BY-NC 4.0. Image: Allison Shelly. See also: Images of AI library. Same concept; images are all AI themed.

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