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Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bridgy Fed, which is working to connect the social network Bluesky with the wider fediverse (i.e., the open social web), which includes sites like Mastodon and others, will be the first app incubated within a new nonprofit called A New Social. The organization, announced Tuesday, aims to bring together developers, researchers, startups, and industry leaders building infrastructure for the open social web, including those adopting protocols like Bluesky’s AT Protocol and ActivityPub, which powers Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, and the rest of the fediverse.

Fun fact: If you use software that support following people like MBin, you can bridge your account too and follow BlueSky folk

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

What I see is more bots, and cross posting ads made easy 🥲

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair there's a lot of ad spam bots that I see on Mastodon as it is.. I see better moderation tools as a solution, not being a walled garden

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

But the fediverse solves that with federation, right? Connectivity and choosing where your connections are is the whole point.

Or is that short sighted? Seriously asking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Blocking an instance is a powerful tool if it is what you have in mind. Blocking or defederating with such activitypub bridge may have unwanted side effects. It has been discussed before, when meta moved closer to the fediverse. Some kind of fediverse split may happen : those who connect with wallet garden platforms vs the others living in the fediverse as we know it today.