Dev adventures, epic bugs, tiny wins, and the occasional meltdown. Zola 2026-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 https://golden-fox.tech/tags/atproto/atom.xml 2026-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 Aakriti Agarwal https://golden-fox.tech/til/eurosky/ <p>I just moved my Bluesky account from <code>golden-fox07.bsky.social</code> to <code>golden-fox07.eurosky.social</code>. It looks like a handle change but it’s actually more than that. My whole account moved to a different server which is run by <a rel="external" href="https://eurosky.tech">Eurosky</a> in Europe and none of my followers had to do anything.</p> <p>The reason was simple: I wanted my data in the EU. Before this, my posts sat on a Bluesky server in the US.</p> <h2 id="how-i-did-it">How I did it</h2> <p>I used <a rel="external" href="https://move.eurosky.tech/">move.eurosky.tech</a> (they call it EU-HAUL). The steps were pretty simple:</p> <ol> <li>Sign in with your current handle and password</li> <li>Pick the server you want to move to (Eurosky by default) and choose a new handle</li> <li>Wait while it copies your posts, follows and media over</li> <li>Confirm the final step through an email from Bluesky</li> </ol> <p>The whole thing took me about 20 minutes and it just worked. Nothing broke and I didn’t have to redo any steps.</p> <p>You need an invite code from Eurosky first which you get by signing up on their site.</p> <p>If you already use your own domain as your handle then the tool lets you keep it. I was still on <code>.bsky.social</code> so I got a <code>.eurosky.social</code> handle instead.</p> <h2 id="what-actually-changed">What actually changed</h2> <p>In my <a href="/blog/why-i-self-host/">why I self host</a> post I wrote about how Bluesky is built on the AT Protocol and how your identity is a <strong>DID (Decentralized Identifier)</strong> that isn’t owned by any one server. This is the first time I actually got to see it happening with my own account</p> <h2 id="things-to-watch-out-for">Things to watch out for</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Old links stop working.</strong> My old handle isn’t in my DID document anymore, so links like <code>bsky.app/profile/golden-fox07.bsky.social</code> won’t point to me once caches clear. (When I checked, the old handle still resolved, probably for that reason.) I still need to update the Bluesky link in this site’s footer lol.</li> <li><strong>You still use the normal Bluesky app.</strong> You just sign in with the new handle afterwards.</li> </ul> <p>Honestly that was it. I was expecting something to go wrong but it was a pretty easy 20 minutes.</p> <p>Next step is probably making <code>golden-fox.tech</code> my handle since I already own the domain.</p>