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Fediverse! I’ve been building a bridge to Bluesky, and they’re turning on federation soon, which means my bridge will be available soon too. You’ll be able to follow people on Bluesky from here in the fediverse, and vice versa.

Bluesky is a broad network with lots of worthwhile people and conversations! I hope you’ll give it a chance. Only fully public content is bridged, not followers-only, unlisted, or otherwise private posts or profiles. Still, if you want to opt out, I understand. Feel free to DM me at @snarfed@indieweb.social (different account than this one), email me, file a GitHub issue, or put #nobridge in your profile bio.

(Admins, if you decide beforehand that you don’t want your instance to federate with Bluesky over the bridge, the domain to limit or block is bsky.brid.gy.)

A number of us have thought about this for a while now, we’re committed to making it work well for everyone, and we’re very open to feedback. Thanks for listening. Feel free to share broadly.

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snarfed.org · Re-introducing Bridgy FedHi! I’m Ryan. I’ve been building social network bridges and related tools for over 12 years, including Bridgy, which connects personal web sites and blogs to centralized social networks…

@zatnosk @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews I might be missing something, I don’t follow how this is different to the Fediverse today. Any new server can access & federate from any other, unless the user or the server blocks it (unless I’ve misunderstood!) Wouldn’t this be the same for fed.brid.gy? (But you can *also* use the hashtag in your profile)

@byjp @zatnosk @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews I think the main difference is that, like Nostr, Bluesky is just one big monolith with known problematic users (that have to be "filtered" out), so it's hard to moderate effectively. It's the same as any other large Mastodon instance, like dot Social or Gab.

JP

@blake @zatnosk @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews Ahh yeah, I guess some users/servers might want/need to block the whole of brid.gy to avoid the risk of specific users on a given bridged platform being able to follow them. That’s not so different to today’s fediverse (lots of people/servers block Threads), but it sucks to lose the other functionality of brid.gy.

@blake @zatnosk @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews (Unless you can block specific bridges platforms individually @snarfed.org ? This still seems within the limits of current Fediverse architecture to me, but it’d be a shame if we can’t allow people to select platforms by server, just like with the Fediverse!)

@byjp @zatnosk @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews @snarfed@hachyderm.io If you want to block just Bridgy's Bluesky bridge, or just their (upcoming) Nostr bridge, or whatever, you can do that. If you want to block specific PDS's, I don't think there's a way to do that.