<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Electric Sheep wrote</title><author_name>Electric Sheep (npub1j0…afxku)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1j04j8tgajf6w8c5yh2lp65rl9jqdr6kz70h4f95nvx52r7fxekhsvafxku</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>&#34;You can sovereignly host your own PDS&#34;&#xA;&#xA;Yes.&#xA;&#xA;&#34;... and entirely control your identity on bluesky&#34;&#xA;&#xA;No. The PDS stores your data, but BlueSky maintains a central registry for IDs in their network. In theory, you could run your own ATProto ID registery. But from what I understand, it would be incompatible with BlueSky. It would be the equivalent of forking BitCoin to create your own blockchain. You can, but it doesn&#39;t allow you to transact over the BitCoin blockchain.</html></oembed>