Note that accounts on both networks must follow the main bridge account to work.
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I just wish this was a native function of one or both platforms. What a feather in Bluesky’s cap to say that they’re interoperable with Threads, for instance.
People are repeating the same problems of Twitter.
Yes, although the protocol is already open, which I think mitigates the risk slightly. Bluesky is also organized as a public benefit corp, which mitigates the risk almost not at all but is interesting. If Bluesky begins to go the way of Twitter, other corporations or entities can make interoperable replacements easily. That was not so for Twitter.
But in general, yes. This is the same song but a different verse. People have been so blinded by the brokenness of the internet as it is now that an interoperable protocol doesn’t make any sense to them.
I fear that “public benefit corp” will be less and less “public” and more and more “benefit” as time passes. And opening the code does not help much if a second, third and nth server is not there and nowhere on the horizon. By the time the need arises it might become prohibitively expensive or even technically impossible to deploy a new server, as features unused are also poorly tested.
Kinda wish we had actual interoperability standards instead.
We have that, it’s called ActivityPub. BlueSky wouldn’t want that tho, they couldn’t control the entire network then, after all.
The lack of account portability means activitypub is unsuitable for both bsky and just in general.
They could have also worked to implement that into ActivityPub but they still chose to reinvent the wheel
Yeah, bluesky has a bunch of features, notably account portability, which was specifically designed into the ATProtocol.
The purpose of the ATProtocol was never to federate with Activitypub, it was to build a more feature rich and scalable “federated” protocol.
If the BlueSky protocol offers tangible benefits over ActivityPub, the BlueSky protocol could become the basis for ActivityPub 2.0. I don’t know much about the details, though.
The BlueSky protocol relies on central servers tho, I’m not sure if there’s much that ActivityPub can take inspiration from
It’s just complicated enough that only power users will use it. At least on what it looks like at the moment.
I’ve found some major accounts:
It’s easy enough to set up. But fragments the posts. We need native bridging so one post on one platform is auto posted to your account on the others.
I am wondering why people run away from centralised corp twitter to mastodon only to later return to seemingly equally centralised corp bluesky…
