Please educate newcomers on using bridgy fed to bridge their accounts to the #Fediverse this is an excellent tool for not needing an account on bsky and #Mastodon while strengthening the open social web.
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sp00kyra1n :she_her::neocat_floof_cute:replied to damon last edited by
@damon I'd highly recommend sharing this bit of documentation too: https://fed.brid.gy/docs#dm-request
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damonreplied to sp00kyra1n :she_her::neocat_floof_cute: last edited by
@ch0ccyra1n awesome, thanks, I’ll add that!
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@damon I want to love this but I do not really understand how it works. This is my mastodon account, I want to link *this* one to the other one I *already* have on bsky!
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@securescientist There’s currently no way to merge them into a single account. You can either mirror your Mastodon account onto Bluesky or vice versa
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Kewl tool, thank you for posting this. -
@nikatjef you are very welcome, thank you for boosting it
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@damon Thank you -- there may be a typo in the brid.gy address which seems doubled?
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@FMarquardtGroup which one?
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@damon bluesky.brid.gy
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@damon As a “newcomer” myself I found the article, linked below, from The Electronic Frontier Foundation, informative. In particular, this excerpt is why I use Mastodon but not Bluesky:
“ … However, it is developed unilaterally by a private for-profit corporation— Bluesky PBLLC— though it may be imparted to a web standards body in the future. Bluesky remains mostly centralized."
What’s the Difference Between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads?
The ongoing Twitter exodus sparked life into a new way of doing social media. Instead of a handful of platforms trying to control your life online, people are reclaiming control by building more open and empowering approaches to social media. Some of these you may have heard of: Mastodon, Bluesky,...
Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
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@FMarquardtGroup no, this is what the site says and what the account to follow on the Fediverse shows @[email protected]
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@donhawkins That’s totally fine and if that’s important to you then you made the correct decision. Some people don’t find EFF as a reliable source of truth on many of their free speech stances. Bluesky does allow people to host their own PDS with a limit of 10 accounts. They way they’re building things it very much will be what they claim it to be. Also, centralised according to what and whom? If you ask the P2P community and Nostr community they’d tell you that Mastodon and the Fediverse are centralised
