Ah, so if I want to follow someone from Bluesky, they have to first follow the Bridgy Fed account to opt in, I see.
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Can a few people share their bridged usernames to try this out?
You can follow @bsky.brid.gy to get started.
(Unless your server's admin blocked the bridge.)
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@stefan Everybody's username is the same, in the sense that it follows the same pattern: @fediverse.username.fediverse.instance.ap.brid.gy
Mine is @jorgecandeias.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for instance.
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@jorgecandeias Right, I just didn't want to add a bunch of unsuspecting people to my test starter pack.
I take it as I have your permission?
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@stefan Ah. I see.
I would take some grains of salt with my account being "cool", but sure, why not?
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@jorgecandeias Hah, well, either way, thank you, I appreciate it!
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@atthenius Thank you! I don't think your account is bridged yet, have you followed @bsky.brid.gy?
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Mine is
@fedi.ufal.my.id, because few weeks ago we can use custom domain for the bridged account. I also don't really want to use that previous long handle.
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Yes - but you are right it doesn’t seem to be working.
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@ufal @jorgecandeias Interestingly, the custom username didn't come up, but the bridged one did.
Either way, thank you!
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Alright, here's a proof of concept: A starter pack of bridged fediverse accounts you can follow on Bluesky.
Seems to be working?
I don't really intend to keep this updated, but feel free to borrow the idea!
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@stefan @bsky.brid.gy not that I want to be a curator, but here: https://go.bsky.app/7Jur7Mz
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@stefan oh, ha, you beat me to it by a minute
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@thisismissem Hah, well I also don't intend to maintain this.
But happy to have someone run with the idea.
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@atthenius @bsky.brid.gy Perhaps your server admin is blocking this?
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by [email protected]
Just make sure to include the @ap.brid.gy Bluesky account in your starter pack, so that folks can actually interact with these accounts after they follow them.
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@[email protected] yeah mind is here: @stefan.gardenstate.social.ap.brid.gy
still a little confused how it works when it comes to replies.
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@stefan including the opt-in signal as part of a starter pack doesn't seem like a good idea to me - people could feel like they were tricked into opting in.
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Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pccreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan @gdinwiddie … re: BlueSky
"Though the matter was originally fraught with debate over the bridge’s planned opt-out nature, Barrett listened to the community feedback and made the bridge opt-in on both sides for the time being.
That could shift in the future, however, to becoming opt-out for Bluesky users only. 'The norms and expectations there are somewhat different than in the fediverse,' Barrett said.”
So, maybe I don't want to do this.
