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been working on a open source replacement for bento.me (which is shutting down) using your bluesky pds to save your data. still very much work in progress, but can be tried it out here (editing your blento currently desktop only): blento.app source code (svelte ofc :P): github.com/flo-bit/blento

How can you "own your data" if its on someone else's server? Is it encrypted? Does your audience need to have a key to read it?

Well, I'm not the best person to explain how that works (I'm just using it to build fun website :P), but the way i understand it: - bluesky is one of (potentially) many apps that run on top of a protocol "at proto" - in that protocol everyone has their own little server (personal data server = PDS)

- you *can* totally selfhost your PDS (see github.com/bluesky-soci...), but you can also let someone else do it for you (most everyone on bluesky lets bluesky host their PDS), but even if someone else does it for you, you can always move your PDS somewhere else (using some cryptographic magic, ...