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How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
by Alice · 3 min read
You can find the GitHub repository with instructions here; you can migrate your existing account with the GOAT tool, for which Bryan Newbold has written an excellent howto post. Jetstream is like having your own Relay firehose, but uses a fraction of bandwidth, storage, and gives you friendly JSON instead of CBOR-encoded MST blocks. Don't forget to take a look at the available CLI arguments/env variables which lets you do things like change the default retention (24 hours) or override the Firehose cursor and backfill it with 3 days of data—which is what's available from the official relays.
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