we just deployed a fix to a long-standing issue with our image cdn: images within posts are no longer unnecessarily scaled-up. that means many images will load faster and use less data. we also took this as an opportunity to improve the quality of full-size images, as many have requested! 🌅 https://morel.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:l3rouwludahu3ui3bt66mfvj&cid=bafkreibvscbxm6esj5lp5ngtcu5g6hridpyxowtxkzkqekrw4n6y5r2y6e

as bluesky nears 10M users, some of our pds hosts have started to surpass 500k users. we run the same open source pds software that we distribute, not a fork! no heavy machinery—give it some disk and let it run. cheap, permissionless hosting is what makes this network open. happy upcoming 10M! 🎉