Not a feature, but an interesting post by Jay Graber, the CEO of #Bluesky.
How involved was #JackDorsey before he left the board? Not that much, it turns out.
It has always been misleading to present Bluesky as the “platform of Jack Dorsey”. It’s also sexist, as once again, the work of a talented woman was wrongfully attributed to a very mediocre man. The tech version of the Matilda effect.
I found it confusing. For one thing, it asks me for my Mastodon account. Though Akkoma uses Mastodon’s API, not all sites recognize this nor support it—I don’t know if BridgyFed would reject.
Secondly, it’s not clear how to opt in. I think I opted in but there was nothing to say “Congrats! People from #Bluesky can see you!”
Also, how do I receive #Bluesky posts? That’s not apparent to me.
To enable and opt-in you follow this account: @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
That will start mirroring and federate your ActivityPub account over the ATProtocol and assign a DID.
Then the counterpart for BlueSky you follow: https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy
And it will start mirroring your ATProtocol account as an ActivityPub account.
AT to AP seems more seamless since AP has more features. Truncating long posts for example looks ugly. The plan is to thread them eventually.
#Bluesky tip: if you're running some kind of company/org account that's posting to Twitter/Mastodon etc. and you could consider posting to Bluesky too, but you need to integrate it into some existing system, there is a command line tool someone wrote here: https://github.com/mattn/bsky - it should be possible to integrate it with anything that lets you run a shell command. Handles images, link facets etc.
In realtà, Bluesky è un'applicazione basata su un protocollo aperto e documentato (AT protocol) e che, benché sia ad oggi incompatibile con il fediverso, consente comunque la federazione tra più server.
Il progetto quindi è molto interessante e presenta un profilo etico accettabile.
Visto che sei su Poliverso, sappi che Friendica supporta già un'estensione per usare Bluesky, ma c'è ancora bisogno di disporre di un account
Jack Dorsey referred to Twitter, the privately owned company that blocked links to competing social media platforms like Mastodon, as "freedom technology". What a clown.
He also deleted his account on Bluesky announced he's no longer on Bluesky's board of directors. Jack's involvement was one of the reasons I was never excited about #Bluesky, TBH.
@someguyjg@John yeah, I think that lack of logic is on display here too. He deleted his bluesky account, then signed into twitter to talk about how important it is that we all use open protocols.
@docpop@blogdiva My opinion is that he gave up on Bluesky sometime in the middle of last year because Jay and team actually began caving to the community’s demands for some level of moderation, and Jack seemed to disagree vehemently with the notion they should moderate anything.
Jack Dorsey, il co-fondatore di Twitter, volta le spalle alla sua creazione Bluesky per riavvicinarsi alla galassia di X e al suo vecchio amico Elon Musk. È una mossa sorprendente, che scuote l'intero panorama dei social. Questa riconciliazione (con tanto di endorsement a X come "tecnologia di libertà") potrebbe ridisegnare le future dinamiche di potere nel mondo digitale. Che bolle in pentola?
che si riavvicini a twitter mi
sembra un po' forzato rimane sempre un sostenitore di sistemi decentralizzati e rispettosi della privacy come nostr, bitcoin e tor.
@ku1ik I'm not completely sure if it was his idea to start it or someone else's at Twitter, generally Twitter started the project and he was involved. And they didn't really direct everything themselves, they basically did a research phase, reviewed several teams who applied and picked Jay who had some vision and they liked it. And then she insisted to set it up as a separate company, they agreed, she hired a couple of people, they gave her money and Jack ended up on the board.
@ku1ik And I think he was somewhat involved at the beginning as an advisor, but then as they started building the concrete service in 2022/23 he disagreed with a bunch of decisions (we don't know the details), he was overruled, and he got less and less interested.
Then in the summer he occasionally posted on the site, but by then the userbase was strongly left-leaning, anti-capitalist etc. so they basically chased him off the site and he deleted the account 😬
@eklektikos beh ma questi CEO hanno il vizietto di fare le cose recintate e controllabili altrimenti non sono contenti, e il fatto che non abbia investito nel fediverso è un buon segno, significa che non è scalabile o monetizzabile.
Lo si sapeva da mesi ormai ma ora che c'è l'ufficialità è una brutta botta, prevedo fuggi fuggi generalizzato anche perchè lui era il motivo principale per cui si dava autorevolezza al social, probabilmente faranno la fine di Diaspora.
@wjmaggos you're probably asking too early, I've seen basically no high profile ones (it is possible to browse the full list of people who are following the bridge bot directly on Bluesky)
From The Verge: Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on Bluesky’s board
> There’s seemingly no evidence that Dorsey is off the Bluesky board yet, apart from his post. The company still lists him as a board member, along with its CEO, Jay Graeber, and Jabber / XMPP inventor Jeremie Miller.
Jack Dorsey is crawling back to Twitter, licking Elon’s boots, calling the site “freedom technology”. In case anyone wondered about Jack’s political alignment: it’s far right, techno-fascist probably.
If you are a #Bluesky person but you miss your peeps on the #Fediverse / #Mastodon, bridge your account and follow them directly from Bluesky. Simple instructions here (detailed by me):
Using #Skybridge to see my Bluesky account in #Ivory to boost fed.bird.gy (#Bridgyfed) allowing me to see #Bluesky posts on #Mastodon, and vice versa. If I post something on Mastodon will it appear on Bluesky, and so appear on Mastodon, and so forth, in a mirror of infinite recursion?
The #BlueskyBridge by Snarfed was soft-launched this week - still very alpha and a lot of things don't work, but posts are starting to come through both ways 🙂
Right now you need to follow the bridge to get bridged (the DM-request mechanism isn't finished yet). I'm tracking the bridged accounts (M->B) here: https://blue.mackuba.eu/directory/fedi
Idk why not at this point. The #BridgyFed critics got like everything they wanted. Everything is pretty much #optin. And because of that it's difficult to follow from here the artists I follow at #Bluesky. :satsuki_sadge:
You could say "just ask each one of them to follow you then", but that's easy for you to say. I don't like looking like an unsolicited jerk asking if they want to hear the words of Jesus Christ or something. Which is how I see some of you here on fedi btw. Damn evangelists. No different from techbros or FOSSbros
Now I do think the early stages should be opt-in like a beta as it is right now to iron out the bugs (and there are plenty) before being available fully to the public. But I have a feeling this is never gonna go #optout as it should've been because of the harshness of those ignorant IANALs who do not really understand the #GDPR and other #privacy laws... :reisensweat:
@mima This is still an early testing phase (it wasn't even supposed to be announced 😅) - it won't be fully opt-in like now, eventually it should send those request DMs on Mastodon, and probably just follow automatically on Bluesky side, but it's all not ready yet. Snarfed is probably now in kind of putting-out-fires mode ;)
