@activitypubblueskybridge Hope this is not an obvious question… I have enabled my Bluesky account for federation and it appears in Search on mastodon.social but when I try to follow it, the status is Pending. I’m not seeing any follow request at Bluesky however. Is there anything else that I should do or is Bluesky still not fully supporting yet?
@lstaples@activitypubblueskybridge I'm sorry to bother you, but is there a way to do that? My significant other is on Bluesky rn and it would be cool if we can see each other's posts.
@ntnsndr@activitypubblueskybridge Looking at it from a Mastodon client it looks like a Frendica group is indistinguishable from a Mastodon bot that automatically boosts every post that mentions it
It would be easy to hack together an actual Mastodon bot that acts like that
The hard part would getting the conversation going
Also hard would be scaling it so anyone could create such a "boost-my-mentions bot" for arbitrary topics. Doing so, you might just end up recreating Frendica
Any chance you can clarify if the bridge will respect the user setting we already have regarding “Automatically accept new followers”?
The storm this stirred up seems to involve a lot of people not understanding what a “bridge” is and isn’t, but if you’re promoting it, clarity on what you are, and are NOT implying people will be unknowingly opted in to would probably go a long way.
Catching up on the vigorous debate re: the Bluesky/Mastodon bridge, via @activitypubblueskybridge this AM. There's an ineluctable tension between protocol vs license: both powerful but separately coordinated means of governing content, privacy, permissions & safety in the fediverse, or in any digital space for that matter. How best to balance state regs, CoC's/moderation, and protocol dev as overlapping forms of governance? It gets really sticky when put into practice.
