• mesamune@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Anyone try the bridge? Seems a bit convoluted.

    Anything that gets people off Twitter is a good thing. And it means more potential mastodon users later on ;)

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          Not sure exactly what you’re asking, but it’s opt in.

          So since I opted in, my mastodon account is shown as a bluesky account on bluesky.

          But I can only follow bluesky accounts from mastodon if they’ve opted into the bridge, which seems to be a decent number, but still a small proportion. And the replies to my posts that are on bluesky, will only be visible to me from mastodon if the people replying have opted into the bridge.

          I’m not using mastodon much anyways, because there are too little people there who care about what I post, but I use a service to post which automatically posts on mastodon / bluesky (and until last week when i opted out, twitter), so I’ll still be posting to mastodon even though it’s only for a handful of people compared to my 8k bluesky followers.

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            5 days ago

            It used to not require opt-in, but Mastodon users were strongly opposed to the idea of Mastodon actually being interoperable with other services and harassed the developer.

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      Bridgy Fed is pretty straightforward. You just follow the account and away you go.

      It doesn’t make your bridged posts particularly attractive-looking (essentially you appear as a bot under a subdomain of a server), but it’s searchable and discoverable in the target network.

      I’m now mostly using Blue Sky, but I bridge to Mastodon, so all my posts form part of the content that’s available to fediverse users. For little old me that’s not all that important, but if every big organisation or journalist or celeb did that too, that’d do a lot to build vitality into the fediverse network.