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
    01·
    6 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.

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Come now Sean, you know that everything open about BlueSky is smoke and mirrors, considering that everything stops and starts with the indexer.

        • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          No. With ActivityPub, it’s totally decentralized. There’s no central authority whatsoever. What there is however, is an instance that’s bigger than the rest. So if we talk about Lemmy. I can access it and post and my ISP can block Lemmy World and I’d never know.

          With BlueSky, it pretends to be similar, but the reality is that everything needs to go through their central server in order to be displayed on a timeline. BlueSky is designed in such a way so that everyone does the heavy lifting, but to be seen, you need to have approval from their central server, where they can modify, insert adverts, do whatever. It’s a centralised service that cosplays as decentralised. I don’t understand why people keep pushing it when it’s literally the same shit we all escaped from but with a new paint job.

      • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        01·
        6 months ago

        I can’t tell whether this is serious or sarcastic 😅

        As far as the “global square” part of the equation is concerned: yeah, you’re right! A firehose of public statuses requires indexing to work, as a basic foundational premise.

        However, there’s nothing preventing someone from standing up a PDS, opting out of the firehose / big graph service, and instead leaning on federation between individual PDSes. I’m not saying it would necessarily be a common use-case, but it’s definitely not impossible.

    • abrahambelch@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      6 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.