Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch
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It was new to me, and hadn't seen it posted here - sorry if the language in the headline is misleading. Thanks for the links! I just started researching this after working with some Wordpress -> ActivityPub plugins and was curious if the functionality could extend to BlueSky.
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Its all good! Lemmy isnt going to downvote you to hell for repeating something a year old. We are not reddit
How does the wordpress integration work? I haven't seen much articles talking about it lately. Can I post from mastodon to a wordpress?
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Personally, I think a sweet spot would be to ask users when they sign up what kind of experience they want. Let them decide and make it easy to change later.
"Do you want your posts to be followed by Mastodon/Fediverse?" Yes/No/I dunno (No/I dunno are the same with a bit more info). Something like that. Then if they have it on, have a button like mastodon that makes it easy to follow outside the network.
The current way of having both accounts follow a certain account is difficult enough that most dont do it.
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I haven't investigated / tested it yet, but it should be possible. The thing is that Lemmy and Mastodon use different parts of the ActivityPub protocol to publish content, which is why interaction between the two is "interesting". My guess is that you'll be able to post and reply to comments and DMs, but it may be difficult to create posts in communities.
Side note, Mbin combines the Mastodon/Lemmy interpretation of ActivityPub protocols pretty well, so it's possible, but when I last used it was still pretty fragile, and had stability issues. When the project was kbin, it had a real problem during the CSAM attacks on the Fediverse about two years ago, which led to the biggest instances being defederated and the founder eventually having to abandon the project.
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This is what I was thinking. when I read the headline I was like I've already been doing this since 9 months!
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- Bridged Mbin user posts micro blog to community
- Bridged Bluesky user comments on Bluesky copy of post
- Profit?
It could work. If anyone on Bluesky wants to give it a shot I can make a post to some testing community - my profile is bridged. Not very interestingly so though, as I don't post microblogs often.
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I just made this post in Mbin, seen here in dbzer0's Dylan community, and here on Bluesky. Spreading it everywhere certainly worked, if a bridged user wants to respond they can share their emotions after listening to this. -
We are not reddit
That's why I'm here
Here's an article on the integration that goes into decent detail. And here's the git repo, but you should be able to see via your plugin interface. The developer is very responsive and a great guy.
What I've found is that it does enable crossposting, and is a good tool for publishing your content out. Comments do come in if enabled. Subscribing to offsite Mastodon users is very "interesting" however - like being able to see people's DMs if they're across servers. There's also issues with using it with cheaper hosts (Bluehost, I'm looking at you), as certain security settings will disable part or all of the feed.
To me, it feels good to use if your WP has one user publishing content. If you have other users on the site, it could start getting messy on the backend. Incoming spam is also an issue - Jetpack isn't set up to scan incoming Fediverse content.
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I wonder if you could do it like the aggregation apps that used to exist for like...FB, Twitter, Instagram, where you can access/post from multiple accounts. My big thing is I hate having a dozen apps that do the same thing; so having an aggregator app is nice. For people who want the singular account, you could see both Bsky and Mastodon. For people like yourself, you could log in to both accounts and have separate feeds, just homed on the same app. And I imagine it'd be nicer, because Activity Pub would be the base, and it could display different UIs based on what information is being pulled, so it isn't just like a Twitter feed on FB. You could get the Lemmy view on Lemmy, Twitter view on Bsky/Mastodon, Instagram on PixelFed, etc.
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Kinda, right now its opt in, and to opt in you have to follow @[email protected] or @ap.brid.gy on bsky.
Lemmy has no functionality to follow users yet.
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In my defense, your honor, I too was misled by the headline, and coupled with my own ignorance, truly thought this was shiny and new.
I throw myself upon the mercy of the court.
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Thankfully, I've already blocked Bluesky from my Mastodon feed.
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Heck yeah I'll give you a follow over on Bluesky. I'm following a handful of people that are bridged Mastodon users. Yours will be the first Mbin one though. I really hope all the kinks get worked out over time though because I really love the idea of interconnectivity.
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Your ignorance means it was shiny and new to you, and that's okay!
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Not interested. The folks on Blue sky can keep their corporate social media.
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The problem with bridgy fed is everybody needs to opt in. Even if you respond to a syndicated post from AP on Bluesky, but you're not following their account to opt in, it doesn't show up.
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I believe the tool itself is open source, so it's definitely a possibility.
It looks to be python? Can't see a guide on how to host it, though
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Well, the current way is a third party "unofficial" solution
