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by immibis 284 days ago
Migrating PDS on Bluesky requires a new account if your old PDS doesn't want you to migrate, or if you get banned from the PLC directory.
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This isn't strictly true. If you can sign a did document (i.e. you've set up a recovery key), even if your old PDS refuses to cooperate (or disappears entirely) you can still move to a new PDS and deactivate your account on the old PDS (as this is done via your did document)[1]. It's not exactly trivial to do currently but tools are being developed that automate the process and render all this down into easy to use apps.

> or if you get banned from the PLC directory

This is technically true (for did:plc users) but this isn't a thing that's happened in the past and in the event it happens in the future (or even is seriously discussed in the future), did:plc will be in a substantially different situation than it is currently and the community should be situated by then to handle a federated or coordinated PLC directory.

1. https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/adversarial-pds-migrat...