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.
I guess bridging with bluesky currently this does not make much sense to lemmy users?
As I understand it, Lemmy users do not have public messages, so no contextless posts like on Mastodon or Bluesky. On the other hand BridgyFed does not support communities, as a community cannot follow it.
So the way I have been using federation via ActivityHub, following communities and posting from mastodon, cannot be done from bluesky.
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.
Out of context, “I still dont understand why we need bluesky” sounds like something an oil executive would say. In context, I completely agree.
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.
