You Can Now Bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts
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Bridgy Fed's integration between Bluesky and the Fediverse is now in public beta, and you can try it for yourself!

Bridgy Fed’s Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa.

There’s still some quirks, and every bridged account has to opt in to it, but it’s a promising moment for people that want to communicate across networks.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      325·
      2 months ago

      It’s a different approach with different ideas. It uses open protocols, focuses on data and account portability, and incorporates peer-to-peer concepts in its architecture. The vision behind Bluesky is to build a global square with these concepts.

      I definitely wish they would’ve extended ActivityPub and collaborated on the wider network, but I kind of understand wanting to start from scratch and not get involved with the cultural debt Mastodon brought to the network.

      • abrahambelch@programming.devEnglish
        81·
        2 months ago

        I don’t see any need for BlueSky at all when there already is a great network in the form of Mastodon. I mean all (most) of the ideas you mentioned apply one-to-one to Mastodon as well. To me they have very similar ideas.

        • clgoh@lemmy.caEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          Unlike ActivityPub, account migration with the AT protocol should allow to move content.

        • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Mastodon’s moderation model is very different than BlueSky. BlueSky’s seems to be much better for targeted individuals and groups. But things aren’t entirely hashed out on either protocol or their implementations. We’ll see how it goes.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      9·
      2 months ago

      Out of context, “I still dont understand why we need bluesky” sounds like something an oil executive would say. In context, I completely agree.

    • Maxnmy's@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      It’s not ideal but it is in place to accept the normie Twitter refugees as Twitter turns into an alt-right propaganda platform run by a shitty AI that promotes false stories.