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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

BlueSky is its own thing with its own federated protocol called ATproto. They have an explanation in their docs on how it works, different features. There's a bridge between the two as well, a bit janky but effective.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a federated protocol, but the network itself isn't meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it's still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They have no reason to change that. They will long term want the exact same thing that twitter has, access to all user data and control of the platform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rumors are indicating that they want to offer some subscriptions to users(domain registration and hosting of various bluesky components).

The company is currently TINY, under 50 employees. So as long as the infra costs stay low, it won’t take much. If enough users get vanity domains, and they get some govt/enterprise accounts for hosting bsky.cnn.com and such.

So the idea is that they want to get to some ethical monetization strategy before releasing the software to aggregate content is released, and federation is enabled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I would happily bet money that federation keeps getting kicked down the road. "Oh, we have to do X first. Also Y just came up, and you know it was a waning moon last night so...." They have no reason to enable it as long as things go their way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you can see mastodon posts on bluesky and bluesky posts on mastodon?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, not unless the person whose posts you want to see opted into bridging their account.

If both parties bridge their accounts they can follow eachother, or if one person bridges their account others can follow them.

I don't think you can see boosts of stuff not on your platform though, and I don't know how interacting with a bridged account works if both of you are bridged. If only the person you're following is bridged they definitely won't see it, but I don't know if that changes if you're both bridged

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you opt-in to that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You opt in by following the bridgy fed account for your platform, so for Mastodon that'd be: https://bsky.brid.gy/bsky.brid.gy

There's one on each platform, and when you follow it it'll create you a bluesky/mastodon counterpart and send you the link to that bridged account